Manual para mujeres de la limpieza /A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories - Lucia Berlin

Tras
aos de injusto olvido, Alfaguara se suma al fenmeno editorial del
descubrimiento de Lucia Berlin, el secreto mejor guardado de la
literatura estadounidense, una autntica revolucin literaria. XVII
Premi Llibreter 2016. Libro del Ao segn Babelia. Una revelacin
literaria: el secreto mejor guardado de la literatura estadounidense.

Manual
para mujeres de la limpieza rene los mejores textos de la legendaria
escritora de relatos Lucia Berlin, uno de los secretos mejor guardados
de la literatura estadounidense. Con su inigualable toque de humor y
melancola, Berlin crea verdaderos milagros con episodios del da a da.


Las mujeres de sus cuentos estn desorientadas pero, al mismo tiempo,
son fuertes, inteligentes y, sobre todo, extraordinariamente reales. Son
autoestopistas, duras trabajadoras, malas cristianas. Ren, lloran,
beben. Sobreviven en un mundo de jockeys, doctores y telefonistas con un
ingenio propio de Lorrie Moore y la agudeza de Raymond Carver.


ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

One
of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015 "I have
always had faith that the best writers will rise to the top, like cream,
sooner or later, and will become exactly as well-known as they should
be-their work talked about, quoted, taught, performed, filmed, set to
music, anthologized. Perhaps, with the present collection, Lucia Berlin
will begin to gain the attention she deserves." -Lydia Davis.

A
manual for cleaning women compiles the best work of the legendary
shortstory writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the
humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own,
Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in
the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the
homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and
struggling mothers, hitchhikers and bad Christians. Readers will revel
in this remarkable collection from a master of the form and wonder how
they'd ever overlooked her in the first place.