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7478164The Empire of Dirthttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-empire-of-dirt-9780393881783/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1457932/fae86943-9713-44aa-8515-8f2a2fca268c.jpg?v=638811312066200000188229MXNW. W. Norton & CompanyInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>In this captivating English-language debut, three generations of women must face their secrets and regrets when an old family curse awakens.</strong></p><p>There has always been tension in the blind house, where Valentina lives with her mother and grandmother in the Italian countryside. Valentinas pious grandmother often hints at a family curse, while Valentinas mother scoffs at superstition; its one of the battlegrounds on which they fight to control Valentinas upbringing.</p><p>But in the summer of 1996, when Valentina is twelve, she gets her period for the first timeand the curse suddenly becomes frighteningly real. Blood leaks from the walls; the house and farm are overrun with frogs; the kitchen crawls with flies. Valentina is certain that she has brought catastrophe to her house and its inhabitants.</p><p>In this propulsive coming-of-age novel, of mother-daughter relationships and painful family legacies, Valentina is forever changed by the events of one terrifying summer.</p>...1093365The Empire of Dirt188229https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-empire-of-dirt-9780393881783/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1457932/fae86943-9713-44aa-8515-8f2a2fca268c.jpg?v=638811312066200000InStockMXN99999DIEbook2022Inglés