Barbara Ronca Libros

An epic, powerful and intensely personal debut about war, migration, family, and the search for a place to call home. For fans of PACHINKO, WILD SWANS and ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three times. Can Fay believe in lasting love with such a man? Will romantic love conquer all rational expectations? Only Carol Shields could describe so adroitly this couple who fall in love as thoroughly and satisfyingly as any Victorian couple and the modern complications that beset them in this touching and ironic book.

You can erase the memory. But you cannot erase the crime. Jenny's wounds have healed. An experimental treatment has removed the memory of a horrific and degrading attack. She is moving on with her life. That was the plan. Except it's not working out. Something has gone. The light in the eyes. And something was left behind. A scar. On her lower back. Which she can't stop touching. And she's getting worse. Not to mention the fact that her father is obsessed with finding her attacker and her mother is in toxic denial. It may be that the only way to uncover what's wrong is to help Jenny recover her memory. But even if it can be done, pulling at the threads of her suppressed experience will unravel much more than the truth about her attack. And that could destroy as much as it heals.

Situada en unos Estados Unidos donde la mitad de la población ha sido silenciada, "Voz" es una historia inolvidable y llena de tensión, en la que una mujer se enfrentará a los poderes establecidos para proteger a su hija y a sí misma. Una poderosa distopía feminista en la línea de "El cuento de la criada" y "El poder". Cien al día. Ni una más. Esa es la cifra de palabras que la neurolingüista Jean McClellan y el resto de mujeres tienen derecho a pronunciar cada día. Una sola palabra por encima de esa cifra y cientos de voltios de electricidad recorrerán las venas de cualquier mujer que se atreva a sobrepasarla. Ese es el mandato del nuevo gobierno. Las mujeres no pueden escribir, los libros les han sido prohibidos, sus cuentas bancarias han sido transferidas al hombre de la familia más cercano y se han suprimido todos los empleos para las mujeres. Pero cuando el hermano del presidente sufre un extraño ataque, a Jean le devuelven temporalmente el derecho a trabajar y a hablar más de 100 palabras al día, con el objetivo de que continúe investigando la cura de la afasia, un extraño trastorno de una parte del cerebro que controla el lenguaje. Pronto Jean descubrirá que la están utilizando y que ha pasado, sin saberlo, a formar parte de un plan mucho más grande, cuya intención no es encontrar la cura de la afasia, sino inducirla. ¿El objetivo final? Eliminar por completo las voces de las mujeres.