A witch who helps Mar???a Balteira, a famous courtesan in the court of Alfonso X of Castile; a man who cannot love his wife because of another lover's jealousy; a nun who falls for the man of her dreams; a mermaid who is condemned to eternal youth ("Being unable to grow old is like not being alive, like writing a book in the sand on the beach"); a nobleman whose lover is cursed by her mother and turns into a she-wolf; a witch working incognito in a discotheque in Barcelona; a mulatta from the Caribbean who disembarks one ...
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A witch who helps Mar???a Balteira, a famous courtesan in the court of Alfonso X of Castile; a man who cannot love his wife because of another lover's jealousy; a nun who falls for the man of her dreams; a mermaid who is condemned to eternal youth ("Being unable to grow old is like not being alive, like writing a book in the sand on the beach"); a nobleman whose lover is cursed by her mother and turns into a she-wolf; a witch working incognito in a discotheque in Barcelona; a mulatta from the Caribbean who disembarks one day in Coru???a; a sorceress who is forbidden to fall in love; two women waiting for an abortion; a town clock's ability to warn people by striking twelve with eleven and a half strokes; a female academic in the company of women from history; a shepherd under the spell of a sorceress with three faces; a grandmother who tells her granddaughter to count sheep, or seahorses, or sea shells... In the thirteen stories that make up Confusion and Death of Mar???a Balteira , Lugo writer Marica Campo weaves together the threads of myth and historical fact to create a garment that, like a magic cloak, transports the reader to the high forests and glens of Galicia in north-west Spain, a land shrouded in mystery and an integral part of the Celtic fringe. Marica Campo has previously published the novel Memoir for Xoana , a violinist's conversation with her unborn daughter, also in Kathleen March's translation. Kathleen March is a renowned Galician specialist and the translator of important Galician authors into English.
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