by Jennifer Clement · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433970008
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«Una historia verdadera basada en mentiras» is the novel by Jennifer Clement, published by Anagrama in 2003 in hardback (184 pages, in Spanish).
Leonora grows up on the outskirts of Mexico City, where she survives by gathering branches to make brooms. Sent to a convent, she learns to read and write and is prepared to serve as a maid. She soon enters the O'Conner household, and years later her daughter Aura narrates a story of silenced origins and inherited lies.
First edition in the Panorama de narrativas collection. Translation by Guillermo Sánchez Arreola; original in English: A True Story Based on Lies (2001). The work was nominated for the Orange Prize in 2002.
Novel recommended for reading clubs and for readers of contemporary literary fiction.
Jennifer Clement is an American-Mexican author. Clement has written several novels, including Gun Love (2018) and Prayers for the Stolen (2014), and published several collections of poetry and the memoirs Widow Basquiat (2001) and The Promised Party (2024). She is president emerita of PEN International, and was the first and only woman to be elected to this position (2015).
