by Goar Markosián-Kásper · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478446520
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«Penélope» is the contemporary novel by Goar Markosián-Kásper, published by Siruela in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Yerevan in the mid-1990s, it follows Penélope, who faces newly independent Armenia with singular spirit: getting a hot shower is quite an adventure, and economic and political shortages add to cultural and religious peculiarities. Her boyfriend disappears and an old suitor reappears.
Volume 18 of Siruela's Nuevos Tiempos collection. Translated from Russian by Víctor Andresco; it was Markosián-Kásper's first novel and won the Booker Prize in Russia.
For readers interested in contemporary foreign fiction and stories set in the everyday life of post-Soviet Armenia.
