Hijas impertinentes

In this memoir, previously unpublished in Spanish, the British Nobel laureate evokes her origins to reconstruct, with lucidity and without indulgence, the history of her family and, in particular, her complex relationship with her mother. Through this bond marked by misunderstanding and distance, the author paints a portrait of a woman raised in Victorian England who, far from the life she dreamed of, ends up in a remote corner of Africa with a husband determined to establish his own farm. Praised by critics as a work of great virtuosity, Impertinent Daughters is “relentless and flawless, [...] brief, limpid, and intense” and shows “from what emotional carnage a writer is born” (L’Hebdo). An unforgettable text that illuminates the inner world of one of the most prominent voices in contemporary literature and offers an extraordinary gateway to her universe.