Cielos de Barro

Madrid: Alfaguara, 2010; (2000) . 257 pages; 24 cm. Near fine(+) with very faint wear to exterior. . Paperback. ISBN: 9788420406572, 8420406570

In Spanish. "Dulce Chacón (3 June 1954 3 December 2003) was a Spanish poet, novelist and playwright. Born into a traditional family in the Extremadura region of Spain, her family moved to Madrid upon her father's death, when she was 12 years old. In spite of growing up in a conservative family, Dulce Chacn soon became a leftist, due to the victims caused by the Spanish dictatorship. Her motto towards this issue was neither bitterness nor oblivion. Chacn started writing at an early age even though she did not publish until 1992 when her first book of poetry, Querrn ponerle nombre, appeared. Two more books of poetry then followed: Las palabras de la piedra and Contra el desprestigio de la altura, in 1993 and 1995 respectively. The latter won her the Ciudad de Irn Prize. In 1996 she published her first novel, Algn amor que no mate, which is about a woman abused by her husband. Jos Saramago described it as harsh but necessary. Consequently, she involved herself in various progressive social and political activities. Her novel La voz dormida (The sleeping voice), which gathers testimonies of women who took part in the republican side during the Spanish Civil War, attracted widespread acclaim. In regards to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Chacn joined a cultural movement against war. There she went along to read aloud, alongside Nobel prize winner Jos Saramago, the anti-war manifesto at the 15 March 2003 mass demonstration in Madrid against the war. She was also a member of an association for women against gender-based violence. Her husband, Miguel ngel Alcntara, would define her as a determined, leftist, agnostic woman, whose best weapons were words and writing. She died in Madrid on 3 December 2003, only one month after learning she had pancreatic cancer that had spread to her liver."—Wikipedia