{"product_id":"lilianas-invincible-summer-a-sisters-search-for-justice","title":"Liliana's Invincible Summer : A Sister's Search for Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman. I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney’s office: I seek justice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza’s sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide. She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut his decision was that she would not have a life without him. Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence – handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints – to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister’s voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: 2024, UK\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 220\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781526649355\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"desirelines books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57296745759051,"sku":null,"price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/8755\/1819\/files\/9781526649355.jpg?v=1778687453","url":"https:\/\/desirelinesbookstore.com\/products\/lilianas-invincible-summer-a-sisters-search-for-justice","provider":"desirelines books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}