Como cliente Amazon Prime obtén 3 meses de Audible gratis
Madame Victoria
No se ha podido añadir a la cesta
Error al eliminar la lista de deseos.
Se ha producido un error al añadirlo a la biblioteca
Se ha producido un error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
0,99 € al mes durante los primeros 3 meses
Madame Victoria
Compra ahora por 11,99 €
-
Narrado por:
-
Jacky Finn
-
De:
-
Catherine Leroux
In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and eventually forgotten.
But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria 12 different histories for the unknown woman. Like musical variations repeating a theme, each Victoria meets her end only after Leroux resurrects her, replacing the anonymous circumstances of her death with a vivid reimagining of her possible lives. And in doing so, Madame Victoria becomes much more than the story of one unknown and unnamed woman: it becomes a celebration of the lives and legacies of unknown women everywhere.
By turns elegiac, playful, poignant, and tragic, Madame Victoria is an unforgettable book about the complexities of individual lives and the familiar ways in which they overlap.
©2015 Catherine Leroux (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
