Perdida en el momento

Lena Polzicoff's road began in a small town in Santa Fe province, where her Russian grandparents settled decades ago. It has taken her to a New York restaurant, and now, after an unheard-of act there, slipping ground glass into a jar of mayonnaise, she escapes to Canada and an uncertain future. Trying to earn a living, she meets people who carry exiles of their own: a Mexican woman devoted to the dead, a blind Irishman who hires young women to tell him children's stories, a Frenchman who trains pigs, and a Scot she falls in love with, all of them unsure where in the world they belong.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

228 pages in the original

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Canada, Argentina

First published

2003 by Clarín/Aguilar

Author's age

34 when first published

ISBN

9789507823572 (original)