Cantoras

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Laughter spiked their conversation, and when it lulled, the silence had a glow to it, crackled by flames.

They meet and attempt to create a safe place in an off-the-grid beach town, with mixed results - and we follow their growth, foibles, loves and heartbreaks, until, finally, the sort-of end of the Juntas. Prior to completing her first book, she worked in women’s rights organizations for ten years, on issues ranging from rape to immigration. It’s triumphant and devastating, it’s optimistic and heart-breaking, and then manages to cover just about every emotion in between. But if you’re up for it, if you’re in the mood to feel a queer literary story with every cell in your body, then Cantoras may be the perfect book for you. Her brother has been detained and jailed for suspected dissidence which means she is marked by association and being discovered a lesbian is as dangerous as being a part of the resistance is.

Unlike the leads, I’m a generation younger and come from Argentina, but the cultural and historical differences stop there. The essence of dictatorship is that no matter where you are or how ordinary you seem, you’re in a cage.

It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. Having said all this, and despite how much the reader can understand the cultural, historical, and language contexts, this novel talks to everyone on many levels that transcends the differences and finds a human common ground. A butcher’s daughter named Flaca, with her male cologne and her heartbreaking caballero swagger, cooks and cares for her friends. When I decided to check out the audiobook right after finishing the paperback, I did not know I would also end up falling in love with this version. This type of immersive storytelling with formidable characterization is our absolute favorite type of book to read.Na szczęście jest też konkretna i brutalna, bo to przecież książka o próbie zbudowania utopii w świecie, którym zawładnęła przemoc.

when those actions had, after all, been part of their jobs, and so shut up about the torture, the electric machines, the rapes, the cages without trial, the abuse and starvation, the disappearances, the pain of broken people now released back into the world, you wanted them back, didn’t you? It is beautifully written about five women living in Uruguay, building a found family to live as who they really are, despite dictators, trauma, and fear. A gripping, lush, and ultimately hopeful story of five queer women fighting for their lives under a dictatorship. Set in Uruguay, this story begins in the year 1977, under a dictatorship that categorizes and enforces their anti-homosexual laws along with those laws opposing the civic- military through jail, and torture along with other human rights violations, as well as people who just “disappeared.

The ocean surrounded them on three sides of this cape, this almost-island, a thumb extending off the hand of the known world. A week-long trip to Cabo Polonia, a small village on the coast north of Montevideo, connects them to each other and the village in a way that city living never could.