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114 pages ; 16 cm |
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"January is the story of a 16-year-old farmworker named Nefer. In the Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer's throat. Nefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Her belly swells. Desperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is known to perform abortions but Nefer becomes too afraid to explain why she is truly there. She attends confession at church but cannot confide in the priest. During a fierce argument with her mother, she finally blurts out her secret. A radical feminist text, January was the first Argentine novel to represent rape from the survivor's perspective and to explore the life-threatening risks pregnancy posed in a society where abortion was both outlawed and taboo." --publisher's website |
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Rape -- Fiction.
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Rape victims -- Fiction.
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Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction.
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Peasants -- Fiction.
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Poverty -- Fiction.
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Abortion -- Fiction.
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Argentina -- Social conditions -- 1945-1983 -- Fiction.
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Feminist fiction.
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Fiction.
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Social problem fiction.
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
Riddle, Frances, translator.
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Shaughnessy, Maureen, 1979- translator.
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| ISBN |
9781953861641 |
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1953861644 |
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