The braid
Colombani, Laetitia, 1976-2020
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Smita, Giulia, Sarah: three lives, three continents, three women with nothing in common, but nevertheless bound by a rare expression of courage - like three strands in a braid. Through the story of one woman's hair, three women's destinies are drawn together. India. Smita is an untouchable, married to a 'rat hunter', her job to clean with her bare hands the village latrines, just like her mother before her. Her dream is to see her daughter escape this same fate, and learn to read. When this hope is shattered, she decides to run away with the child, despite her husband's warnings, sacrificing what is most precious to her: her hair. Sicily. Giulia is a worker in her father's wig workshop, the last of its kind in Palermo. She classifies, washes, bleaches, and dyes the hair provided by the city's hairdressers. When her father is the victim of a serious accident, she quickly discovers the family company is bankrupt.
Main title:
The braid / Laetitia Colombani ; translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie.
Author:
Colombani, Laetitia, 1976-, authorLalaurie, Louise Rogers, translator
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2020.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.This translation originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9781509881109 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
470402
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