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Christina MacSweeney (trans),
Roxanne Hernandez (narrator),
Valeria Luiselli and
Armando Dura¡n (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date
May 13, 2014
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781483018003
ISBN-10
1483018008
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.50 by 5.75 in.
Weight
0.30 lbs.
Original list price
$24.95
Other format details
audio
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: [Translated by Christina MacSweeney]
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Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before; his friendships with Nella Larsen, Louis Zukofsky, and Federico GarcÃa Lorca; and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss.
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Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before; his friendships with Nella Larsen, Louis Zukofsky, and Federico GarcÃa Lorca; and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss.
Editions
Paperback
With Valeria Luiselli |
Italian edition edition from Coffee House Pr (May 13, 2014)
9781566893541 | details & prices | 146 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $15.95
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
With Roxanne Hernandez (other contributor), Armando Dura¡n (other contributor), Valeria Luiselli |
Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (May 13, 2014)
9781483018003 | details & prices | 5.50 × 5.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $24.95
About: [Translated by Christina MacSweeney][Read by ]Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction.
About: [Translated by Christina MacSweeney][Read by ]Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction.
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