{"title":"Books by Marina Pereda","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"la-obra-memorias-divinas-y-humanas-de-una-chica-en-el-opus-dei-primera-persona","title":"La Obra: Memorias divinas y humanas de una chica en el Opus Dei","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book that breaks the silence. A unique narrative voice that describes from within and with irony the power dynamics of this organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarina has a role assigned since Eternity: to become a saint according to the guidelines of Opus Dei and to fully dedicate herself to the institution. However, for this young woman, it is not easy to reconcile celibacy and the strict demands of her divine vocation with the problems of any other millennial: the crisis of adolescence, job insecurity, and an urgent need to get Meg Ryan’s exact haircut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn into a family linked to the organization, the protagonist of La Obra discovers the world around her with an innocent gaze, but as she grows and the clashes between the outside world and her beliefs intensify, her personality begins to split between her real self and her Opus self, forcing her to live between two irreconcilable worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this coming-of-age narrative nonfiction, the author portrays in the first person how Opus Dei works from the inside through everyday episodes and ironically shows the manipulation, psychological abuse, and consequences of her twenty-five years immersed in the ecosystem of this ultra-Catholic group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The numerary encourages you to encourage your friends to go to the club and encourages you to pray more, fight more, strive more, and write down your childhood sins in a notebook. (...)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy little diary from when I was ten or eleven has Winnie The Pooh with his famous honey pot on the cover. (...) When Dad brings honey from Ahedo del Butrón, the village in Burgos where we spend summers, I lick my lips like Winnie. Then, I do the examination of conscience at night sitting on my bed and note that ‘I have been gluttonous’ because I ate three pieces of bread with honey for a snack instead of the two I had promised Jesus. Not only am I going to get fat, which is not so important (after all, that would be vanity), but I have failed God in that small, so small mortification that I could make at ten years old to collaborate with redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe numeraries at the club were not terrifying, far from it. They were girls between twenty and thirty years old, celibate and lively, who spent their afternoons making plans for us: they were what I aspired to be, they were what God had asked them to be, and although they had given their lives to God, they did not resemble nuns, but their style was more like María Pombo’s.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aguilar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57115472036184,"sku":"LIB-LA-AG-897","price":21.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788403526457.jpg?v=1776281424"}],"url":"https:\/\/eu.plasticbooks.com\/en\/collections\/libros-marina-pereda.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}