{"product_id":"slash-burn-2","title":"Slash \u0026 Burn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize \u003cbr\u003efor its translation \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. Like peasants through the ages, she desperately slashes and burns in order to make a place for her children to return to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA country girl sees her village sacked and her beloved father disappeared. She is taken to the mountains to join the guerrillas, who force her to give up the baby she conceives. Surviving the rebellion, and now a woman, she sets out to find her daughter, travelling across the Atlantic with meagre resources. She returns to a community in which civilians, the militia and the ex-guerrilla fighters have to live together in a society riddled with distrust, fear and hypocrisy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHernandez’ narrators have the level gaze of ordinary women reckoning with extraordinary hardship. Denouncing the ruthless machismo of combat with quiet intelligence, \u003ci\u003eSlash and Burn \u003c\/i\u003ecreates a suspenseful, slow-burning revelation of rural life in the aftermath of political trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316066886014,"sku":"NW9781911508823","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781911508823.jpg?v=1778717439","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/slash-burn-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}