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What No One Took the Time to Translate for Her

By Aly Valdés

What No One Took the Time to Translate for Her Contemporary literature

What No One Took the Time to Translate for Her

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THEY DID NOT TRANSLATE THE TRUTH. THEY TRANSLATED HER SENTENCE. When Mariela Gálvez, a Salvadoran migrant woman who did not speak English, went into unexpected labor in a portable toilet and lost her baby, the US judicial system charged her with homicide in less than twenty-four hours. Without adequate interpreters, without real defense, and without understanding the charges, Mariela becomes the perfect scapegoat for a crime she never committed. What follows is a brutal fifteen-year journey in a prison where dignity is a luxury, food is a business, communication is a debt, and survival is a new language. Amid abuse, "pseudo-families," power relations, extortion, abandonment, and a system designed to profit from every incarcerated body, Mariela loses everything... except her ability to resist. But freedom is not the end: it is another labyrinth. Deported to the country she left behind, Mariela must learn to live in a world that has moved on without her, where technology overwhelms her, the people judge her, and her own name is tainted by a story that was never hers. Based on structures and abuses documented in real prisons in the United States, this novel is an urgent denunciation, a story that hurts, that makes you uncomfortable, and that exposes what happens behind the most hermetic walls of the modern prison system. A book you will not be able to forget.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
506
Release Date:
2025-12-19
Publication Date:
2025-12-19
Publisher:
Alicia Garcia
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798233373404
Weight:
1259 g
Height:
216 cm
Width:
280 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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