Habitada - by Cristina Sanchez Andrade (Paperback)

About the Book

Moving between rural realism, Galician fantasy and the most audacious humour, the author offers us a priceless portrait of deep Galicia: land of emigrants, witches, patriarchy, archaic social structures, religious repression and sexual taboos... The young Manuela, who lives in a Galician village at the beginning of the 20th century, is taken by the abbot to work at the manor of the local lord, Don Diego, to look after Mrs. Inmaculada, who is suffering from nervous illness. But there, under the gaze of the cook Jacinta who sees and knows everything, indecent situations arise. Because what the lord really wants is to have carnal access to the virgin girls of the town that the priest provides him with.