A Domestication
Will be published approx. on 7. January 2027
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-349-01990-1 (ISBN)
Description
The actress has playwrights dying to work with her. Directors are in love with her; adoring fans mob her after performances. Renowned for being a diva, she is as spiky and demanding as she is talented. As a travesti, she is traumatised by her painful childhood as a boy, but since then she has worked hard to acquire all the trappings of conventional success: her thriving acting career; her marriage to a lawyer who loves her; and parenthood, for she and her husband have adopted a little boy whom she loves fiercely.
But when she travels with her husband and son for a weekend visit to her family in the countryside, she is confronted with the brutal force of the prejudice she has tried so hard to escape from - and a ticking time bomb threatens to explode.
A tragicomedy of domestic dysfunction written in a voice rich with raw, rebellious beauty, A Domestication is a darkly funny, gritty and moving novel about sex, class, the oppressive lure of wealth and convention - and the unquenchable desire for love.
But when she travels with her husband and son for a weekend visit to her family in the countryside, she is confronted with the brutal force of the prejudice she has tried so hard to escape from - and a ticking time bomb threatens to explode.
A tragicomedy of domestic dysfunction written in a voice rich with raw, rebellious beauty, A Domestication is a darkly funny, gritty and moving novel about sex, class, the oppressive lure of wealth and convention - and the unquenchable desire for love.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-349-01990-1 (9780349019901)
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Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Cordoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor and maid. She holds degrees in communication and theater from the National University of Cordoba. Her play Carnes tolendas, retrato escenico de un travesti was selected for the 2010 National Theater Festival held in La Plata. Her first novel, The Queens of Sarmiento Park, won the Premio Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the Grand Prix de l'Heroine Madame Figaro and has been translated into more than twenty languages.