Overview
Mary se despide de sus padres en la estación. Tiene que coger un tren con destino a un misterioso noveno reino, aunque ella no se siente preparada para viajar y dejar su familia atrás. Finalmente, ante las insistencias de sus padres, sube, y entabla conversación con una mujer mayor que parece haber hecho el mismo viaje muchas veces: algo realmente inusual. Lo que empieza como una historia inocente se convierte gradualmente en una pesadilla siniestra, donde el significado del viaje se adivina detrás de cada línea de diálogo y detrás de los enigmáticos razonamientos de esa mujer que acompaña a Mary en su viaje de descubrimiento, terror y liberación. Sylvia Plath escribió este escalofriante relato cuando tenía veinte años; una maravillosa muestra del talento de la autora, que más tarde aplicaría a sus poemas y a su novela, La campana de cristal.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Never before published, this newly discovered story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life.
Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey.
Lips the color of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like “guilt, and guilt, and guilt”: these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom.
“But what is the ninth kingdom?” she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. “It is the kingdom of the frozen will,” comes the reply. “There is no going back.”
Sylvia Plath’s strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.
This book title, Mary Ventura y el noveno reino / Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom, ISBN: 9788439736356, by Sylvia Plath, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (January 21, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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