Edie Ayala

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Produktbeschreibung

After a tragic loss, a woman becomes obsessed with knitting and hoarding magnificent little sweaters. When one of them is inadvertently shipped to Chile, it's stolen by a poverty-stricken single mother, and the two women are connected in more ways than one. Irene's life in a privileged neighborhood of small town Canada is all going according to plan. But when she loses a child to sudden infant death, she is unable to cope. That is, until she rediscovers the joy and comfort of knitting. So she begins. The problem is that she never stops. She is extremely gifted, and in her obsession, she designs a series of beautiful sweaters, and she fills the house with piles and piles of extraordinary woolen creations. Finally, desperate to see an end to the hoarding, her husband secretly donates the sweaters to a charity. While most of the sweaters are sold locally, one of them is inadvertently shipped off to Chile where Columba, a poor single mother who works at a used clothes depot, steals it. Columba is also struggling with the loss of a child, albeit in entirely different circumstances. But like Irene, she finds solace in the little sweater. And besides, if she hadn't rescued it, it would have languished amidst the tons of North American throw-aways in the garment cemetery of the Atacama Desert. The sweater isn't the only thing she steals but it's the most significant. What happens when her thievery is found out? Back in Canada, Irene's sweaters are sold through a boutique and they become a hot item-to the point where they give rise to a local sweater cult. But when Irene spies her sweaters in the store window and then sees strange children wearing them on the street, she's outraged. She begins to steal them back and it all gets very out of hand. Meanwhile, in Chile, Columba is so grateful for the miraculous little sweater that she conceives a way to share its mystical powers with her neighbours. But it doesn't end there. It never ends there. Sprinkled with magic realism and humor, the story exposes cultural differences, social inequities and global environmental damage caused by hyper-consumerism. But it's really about two women in search of consolation and it's about our shared humanity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stories with Character
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780988003200
• ISBN-10: 0988003201
• Artikelnr.: 64294486

Autorenporträt

"Our stories are our most valuable asset. They define us. They are our legacy." Edie Ayala is a baby boomer from a small logging town in British Columbia. As a girl, she once broke into a neighbour's house to play on their typewriter. She was the creative fort-builder, the abandoned mine-shaft explorer and the tree climber. She has never lost this spirit of curiosity and the search for the small things that might change a day... or a life. Just before Y2K, she made a trip to South America and it was a turning point. Married to a Chilean from the Atacama region, they decided to make Santiago, Chile their home and they've been there ever since. Their grown children are all settled in different cities in Canada and the UK. Edie writes character-driven novels. Her first, South of Centre is a saga sent in nothern Chile in and around the time of the Pinochet regime. With all of its myths and superstitions, it seeks to get to the bottom of various tangled family relationships. The second Hard Bed Hotel is a humorous love story where confusion between the living and the dead takes you on an eventful romp through Santiago's more 'popular' neighborhoods. Her third novel, Threads takes a hard look at the global business of fast fashion. Two women on opposite ends of the globe are connected through love and loss.