Xesús Fraga narrates in ‘Virtues (y misterios)’ a story of emigration, uprooting and sacrifice starring the women of his family, who changed rural Galicia for cosmopolitan London
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This story begins in 1955, when a cobbler from Betanzos, father of three girls, decides to get on a boat and try his luck in Venezuela, convinced that he will return in a short time converted into a wealthy Indian. Years go by and Marcelino not only doesn’t send money, he stops writing. It disappears. His wife, Virtues, takes the three girls as she can, alone. But the economic hardships and becoming the center of the talk of the town, where it is rumored (is
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