Three women.
Three eras.
The same crime.
One of them will live to tell the tale.
The protagonist narrates, harshly but with flashes of ingenuity, the journey her life has taken from her impoverished childhood in the Andalusian countryside of the 50s and 60s to the established position she enjoys in Barcelona in the 90s. While searching for answers for the present, she has to come to terms with some terrible events from the past. Throughout the pages of this relentless novel we witness, between amazement and awe, the history of much of the twentieth century in Spain and the enormous changes that have occurred: from the ephemeral republic through the atrocity of the civil war to the dark years of the dictatorship and finally, today’s democracy. And in the background, like a silent and persistent presence, violence against women, which remains generation after generation, seemingly without an end in sight. This novel presents a dignified view of a topic that has been somewhat forgotten in literature in general and has only recently begun be openly talked about in society. Its polished language and bare, uncompromising style flow together in a shocking plot people by amazing characters.
The Woman Who Resembled God reflects the sparse, revealing starkness of Intemperie by Jesús Carrasco and Santos Inocentes by Miguel Delibes. The careful language and uncompromising style combine with a startling plot and immense characters.