Until She Goes No More

Four women take center stage in this volume of short novels. Barely teenagers, they gaze at the mountains, the sea, the family garden, in a silence broken only by an afflicted—and yet hopeful—soliloquy. Though they come from different backgrounds and origins, they are, in essence, the same woman. The one who keeps quiet, but who cries out in solitude against the violence and humiliation inflicted by abusive bosses, absent mothers, and authoritarian grandfathers.
Their voices capture and sublimate, with haunting sensitivity, the suffocating reality that surrounds them—the hostility bred within the family and mirrored by a society that upholds seemingly eternal patriarchal norms.

Key points

1997 – Finalist work for the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award at FIL Guadalajara

• After Las Marías, this is the second title by Beatriz García-Huidobro published by the Spanish publishing house Cuatro Lunas.
• Four tales that are minimal yet universal, told in a precise and eloquent prose that evokes intimate and alienated atmospheres.