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The invisible countryside: A legacy from grandmothers to granddaughters
Women are the protagonists of a rural world that is beginning to be recognized as a space essentially sustained by femininity.

Auria Cabanelas, nineteen-year-old from the town of Puxedo (Lobios, A Baixa Limia). (Photo Brais Lorenzo)

ALBA MOLEDO UCHA
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CLÁUDIA MORÁN
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BRAIS LORENZO
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Six stories and 60 years of difference intersect the lives of the protagonists in the shadow of a Galician countryside that is beginning to recognize itself as a space sustained, through the centuries, essentially by women. From the memories of those sacks of coal dragged downhill by the nonagenarian Auria Cabanelas to the e-commerce ventures of young women like Ana Álvarez, the reality of the past, captured like no other by Ruth Matilda Anderson, is the legacy of heirs who now advocate for a return to their roots.