by Lucia Berlin · Alfaguara Portugal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896650650
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«Manual para mulheres de limpeza» is the collection of short stories by Lucia Berlin, published by Alfaguara Portugal in paperback.
The volume brings together stories by Lucia Berlin about women facing life in laundries, dental surgeries or convent schools. Lucia Berlin writes from her own experience and precariousness, with humour and melancholy, turning small everyday miracles and tragedies into literary material.
The Portuguese edition has 526 pages, was published in 2016 by Alfaguara Portugal.
It will appeal to those who appreciate realistic stories with female voices and lived experiences.
Lucia Brown Berlin was an American short story writer. She had a small, devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame in 2015, eleven years after her death, with the publication of a volume of her selected stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women.
