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The story blends vivid characters and human emotion with political corruption, betrayal, envy, and revenge, moving between comic absurdity and lyrical, sensual wonder. Set against a tyrant’s power and greed, the narrative creates a suspenseful, picaresque journey shaped by defiant hope.","# EBBAANDTHE GREEN DRESSESOFOLIVIA GOMEZNATMEOF\n\nCONFLICTANDWARJoAN TEWKESBURY  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \n# Praise for\n\nEbba and the Green Dresses of Olieia Gomezin a Time of Confict and War  \nTo read Ebba and the Green Dresses of Oliwvia Gomez in a Time of Conflict andWar is an overwhelming experience.Joan Tewkesbury has crafted a novelof luminous originality,creativity and resonance.It is driven by a uniquenarrative freedom and by characters that are immensely touching.Theywill stay with the reader for a long,long time.A rare sense of wonderpermeates this novel.Its picaresque tone,unusual sense of humor andcapacity to rebound will surprise you on every page.Cervantes andMarquéz may come to mind,but Joan Tewkesbury novel's operates on itsown terms.Ebba.is an unforgettable novel and a brilliant achievement.  \n-Walter Salles,award winning director,\"Central Station,\"\"The Motorcycle Diaries\"and “Linha de Passe”  \nThis beautiful book is ebullient,irresistible storytelling from JoanTewkesbury,who takes us on a complex and mesmerizing journey withEbba.In her first novel,the screenwriter who redefined cinema with themasterpiece \"Nashville\"proves that written fiction can affect and enchantyou even more deeply than film.  \n-Joan Juliet Buck,writer,editor and actress  \nEbba,growing up orphaned in a small Mexican village,comes of age inthis delicious,surprising and powerful first novel by one of our greatHollywood screenwriters.Tewkesbury brings an exquisite eye,a sly humor,and a flair for details to an eccentric group of characters.Unforgettableand deeply resonant,the novel weaves the human and the political withlyricism,sensuality and grace.  \n.Michelle Satter,Founding Director,Sundance Institute Feature Film Program  \nThe themes and characters of Joan Tewkesbury's remarkable book aresteeped in the spices and flavors of Latin American magic realism.She canturn on a centavo from comic absurdity to gossamer romance,sweepthrough envy,betrayal,and revenge,and then plunge down a nightmarehole into things terrible to contemplate.This book has the freshness of afirst novel told with the assurance of a master.  \n-Jonathan Richards,author of Nick &Jake  \nWhat a fierce,bawdy,wonderfully inventive novel!Somewhere in time inSouth America the enchanting Ebba and her beleaguered village areupended by the power and greed of a ridiculous tyrant.Spun as a fable ina style both grotesque and lyrical,Tewkesbury clearly stands with the kind,  \nthe decent,the daring.She does so with so much humor and charm thatwe the readers are swept breathlessly along and feel triumphant at theastonishing outcome.Ebba and the Green Dresses is a captivating tale ofinnocence struggling against evil,a far too familiar story in this sorry world,but told here with fearlessness and defiant hope.A delighting book.  \n-Kathryn Walker,author of A Stopover in Venice  \n# EBBAAND\n\nTHE GREEN DRESSESOf  \nOLIVIA GOMEZINA TIMEOf  \nCONfLICTANDWAR  \na novel by  \nJoAN TEWKESBRyy  \nHand to Hand is a community based endeavor that supports independently published works andpublic events,fre of the restrictions that arise from commercial and political concerns.It is a forumfor artists uho are in dynamic and reciprocal relationship with their communities for the sake ofpeacemaking,restoring culture and the planet.For further information regarding Hand to Handplease write to us at:P.O.Box 186,Topanga,CA,90290,USA.Or avisit us on the web at  \nwww.handtohandpublishing.com  \nDonations to organizations have been made to replenish the trees that were used to create the paperin this book.  \n“XXIX”(A Little Friendly Advice”)by Nicanor Parra,translated by W.S.Merwin,fromANTIPOEMS:NEW AND SELECTED,copyright C1985 by Nicanor Parra.Reprintedby permission of New Directions Publishing 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