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A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.
Author : Andrés Barba
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Argentina
ISBN : 132858934X
A new novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.
Author : Andrés Barba
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945492006
Shirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides, set at an all-girls orphanage.
Author : Caren Irr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231536313
Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, Norman Rush, Gary Shteyngart, and others as they rethink stories of migration, the Peace Corps, nationalism and neoliberalism, revolution, and the expatriate experience. Taken together, these innovations define a new literary form: the geopolitical novel. More cosmopolitan and socially critical than domestic realism, the geopolitical novel provides new ways of understanding crucial political concepts to meet the needs of a new century.
Author : Perhat Tursun
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 023155477X
The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary job in a government office. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection. He wanders the streets, accompanied by the bitter fog of winter pollution, reciting a monologue of numbers and odors, lust and loathing, memories and madness. Perhat Tursun’s novel is a work of untrammeled literary creativity. His evocative prose recalls a vast array of canonical world writers—contemporary Chinese authors such as Mo Yan; the modernist images and rhythms of Camus, Dostoevsky, and Kafka; the serious yet absurdist dissection of the logic of racism in Ellison’s Invisible Man—while drawing deeply on Uyghur literary traditions and Sufi poetics and combining all these disparate influences into a style that is distinctly Perhat Tursun’s own. The Backstreets is a stark fable about urban isolation and social violence, dehumanization and the racialization of ethnicity. Yet its protagonist’s vivid recollections of maternal tenderness and first love reveal how memory and imagination offer profound forms of resilience. A translator’s introduction situates the novel in the political atmosphere that led to the disappearance of both the author and his work.
Author : Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 10,87 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0300196105
Originally published as La Orilla Africana. F&G Editores.
Author : Alan Shapiro
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0547329709
The tenth collection of poems from Alan Shapiro, author of SONG AND DANCE and OLD WAR
Author : Andrés Barba
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1328589110
A "captivating" novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos (Boston Globe). San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city’s own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete collapse, municipal forces embark on a hunt to find the kids before the city falls into irreparable chaos. Narrated by the social worker who led the hunt, A Luminous Republic is a suspenseful, anguished fable that “could be read as Lord of the Flies seen from the other side, but that would rob Barba of the profound originality of his world” (Juan Gabriel Vásquez). "Wholly compelling.” —Colm Tóibín
Author : Andrés Barba
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945492068
Four linked novellas from the celebrated Spanish author of Such Small Hands.
Author : Pascale Casanova
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674013452
The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant counterparts. Inspired by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Pierre Bourdieu, this ambitious book develops the first systematic model for understanding the production, circulation, and valuing of literature worldwide. Casanova proposes a baseline from which we might measure the newness and modernity of the world of letters--the literary equivalent of the meridian at Greenwich. She argues for the importance of literary capital and its role in giving value and legitimacy to nations in their incessant struggle for international power. Within her overarching theory, Casanova locates three main periods in the genesis of world literature--Latin, French, and German--and closely examines three towering figures in the world republic of letters--Kafka, Joyce, and Faulkner. Her work provides a rich and surprising view of the political struggles of our modern world--one framed by sites of publication, circulation, translation, and efforts at literary annexation.
Author : Jonathan Lear
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,48 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674040023
Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.