The Wonders

N AUDACIOUS, HEARTBREAKING DEBUT ABOUT WORKING-CLASS WOMEN’S LIVES ACROSS TWO GENERATIONS, HERALDING A NEW EUROPEAN LITERARY STAR

María and Alicia are a grandmother and granddaughter who have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of money and independence. María, scraping together a living to send money back home for the daughter she barely knows; Alicia, trapped in a poorly paid job and a cycle of banal affairs. Their lives are marked by precarity, and by the haunting sense of how things might have been.

Audacious, intimate and boldly lyrical, The Wonders is a revelatory novel about a broken family, and the power of inheritance to make and unmake us.

PRAISE FOR THE WONDERS

‘Medel’s poetic sensibility is evident in rhythmic, incantatory prose’ New York Times ‘An ambitious and enlightening book from an acclaimed Spanish poet’ The Irish Times ‘A beautifully written novel that examines the lives of three generations of working-class women living precariously in Madrid’ Stylist