Ten Women, by Marcela Serrano
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Ten Women, by Marcela Serrano
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Nominated for the 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award
“Listening to stories gives you many lives, telling them dims loneliness." ―Marcela Serrano
Nine Chilean women from vastly different backgrounds have been brought together by their beloved therapist, Natasha, to talk about their lives and help each other heal. From a teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity, to a middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans, the women don’t have much in common on the surface. And yet as they tell their stories, unlikely common threads are discovered, bonds are formed, and lives are transformed. The women represent the many cultural, racial, and social groups that modern Chile is composed of―from housekeeper to celebrity television personality―and together their stories form a pastiche that is at times achingly sad, and at other times funny and inspiring. This is an intricately woven, beautifully rendered tale of the universal bonds between women from one of Latin America’s most celebrated novelists.
Ten Women, by Marcela Serrano- Amazon Sales Rank: #3007888 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 10 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
Review Praise for Marcela Serrano “Marcela Serrano is Scheherazade’s heir…Thanks to writers like Marcela life will never have the last word.” —Carlos Fuentes “Her novels are shrewd and lucidly feminine. Reading Marcela Serrano is like peering into the eyes of all the women in the world.” —Arturo Pérez-Reverte
About the Author Marcela Serrano is the daughter of writers and an award-winning Chilean novelist. Her debut novel We Loved So Much won the Literary Prize in Santiago. Her subsequent novels, among them The Hotel of the Sad Women and Our Lady of Loneliness, met with much success, landing her the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize and a runner-up nod in the prestigious Premio Planeta competition. She is widely considered one of the best Latin American writers working today. Ten Women is her first novel to be published in English. Originally from Inverness, Scotland, Beth Fowler earned her degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Glasgow, including a year teaching English in Santiago, Chile. She began working as a freelance translator in 2009, and after winning the Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize in 2010 she began to move her focus from commercial to literary translation. Her first novel translation Open Door by Argentine writer Iosi Havillo was published in 2011. She lives near Glasgow with her husband and son.
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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful. Ten Different-But-All-Too-Similar Women By Sarah-Hope Marcela Serrano is a well-known writer in Chile, but Ten Women is the first of her books to be translated into English. The concept underlying the book is straightforward: nine women, all clients (some paying, some pro bono) of the same psychologist come together to tell their stories to one another. After the nine speak, an assistant to the psychologist tells the psychologist’s story as well. These chapters are framed by very brief opening and closing vignettes describing the psychologist viewing the women at a distance as they arrive for this group session.I wanted very much to love this book. I’m particularly interested in literature from post-Pinochet Chile, and the idea of such a multiplicity of narrative voices was tantalizing. I wanted to love this book. But I didn’t. I’m not sorry I read it. I learned from it. But that act of reading was rather like eating a large serving of Swiss chard: I knew it was good for me, but the experience wasn’t intrinsically rewarding.The women in Ten Women represent a broad range of classes, ages, and life experiences, including a young lesbian; the wife of a man who was “disappeared” during the Pinochet regime; a well-known television host; a poor woman struggling to provide not only for herself, but for her bipolar daughter and disabled mother as well. Unfortunately—and I don’t know if this is a characteristic of the original or a result of the translation—these voices come across in a sort of monotone, difficult to differentiate from one another.The structure Serrano uses, while interesting in concept, is part of the problem here. The book is essentially ten monologues with almost no cross reference. Each woman speaks about herself, but we hear only her voice as she speaks. There’s no exchange of words among characters. In addition, we’re not offered visuals of the group or the room in which they’re meeting, so our experience is abstract. We get no interplay of voices, no facial expressions or body language.The distance inherent in the monologues becomes most perplexing when the story of Natasha, the psychologist, is told by Natasha’s assistant. Natasha’s story is interesting, but doesn’t explain why she hasn’t met with the group herself or why she’s decided that this indirect form of self-revelation is appropriate in this therapeutic setting.One learns about the details of daily life for women in contemporary Chile: the expectations and opportunities that are largely regulated by class. However, since we can’t really connect with these too-similar-despite-their-differences women emotionally and since the novel as a whole lacks any narrative arc, what we get is a set of details that could have been communicated with equal efficiency in a shorter work of sociological non-fiction.If you’re interested in understanding some of the variety of contemporary Chileña experience, read this book. However, if you’re hoping to build relationships with characters and to travel along beside them you’ll be disappointed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Ten Women--Delightful, Insightful, Bittersweet By merry Mary book lover Marcela Serrano deftly weaves an enchanting hybrid--a short story novel. The premise is simple:Natasha's patients gather at her home in Chile for an extraordinary group therapy session. Their stories are linked by their experience as women in Chile. Each woman has her own voice, fascinating by herself, yet more powerful when combined with the others. Share their stories and come away with the sadness and joy of their tales. The delicately simple prose packs a punch that stays with you long after you've finished reading. Join Ms. Serrano's Ten Women for a deeply moving experience!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Very Thought Provoking By Becky this is a story of 9 women who have all seen one, their psychologist. They each in turn tell their own stories, everyone of them different and yet alike. Each chapter introduces us to a new woman, culminating in the last chapter where the psychologists assistant tells them the story of her.I found the book to be fascinating. It was originally written in Spanish as the story takes place in Chili. The translation was excellent. I do so enjoy thought provoking stories such as this one. Where their stories differ and yet are similar shows us that the human race isn't so different from one,another after all.This is a book to share to be sure. Enjoy.
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