Prodigios

© Angélica Gorodischer, 1994

This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or used fictitiously.

Prodigios copyright © 1994 by Angélica Gorodischer. All rights reserved.

Translation copyright © 2015 by Sue Burke. All rights reserved.

Cover illustration © 2015 by Elisabeth Alba. All rights reserved. (albaillustration.com)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gorodischer, Angélica.

[Prodigios. English]

Prodigies : a novel / Angélica Gorodischer ; translated by Sue Burke. -- First edition.

      pages cm

   Summary: “An enchanting incantatory novel of the women whose lives pass through a nineteenth century boarding house. Moving, subtle, and dreamlike”-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-61873-099-2 (paperback) -- ISBN 978-1-61873-100-5 (ebook)

1.  Women--Germany--Fiction. 2.  Boardinghouses--Germany--Fiction. 3.  Germany--History--1789-1900--Fiction.  I. Burke, Sue, 1955- translator. II. Title.

PQ7798.17.O73P7613 2015

863’.64--dc23

                                                           2015010357

Text set in Minion.

Paper edition printed on 50# 30% PCR recycled Natures Natural paper by the Maple Press in York, PA.