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FACES IN THE CROWD
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| By: |
Valeria Luiselli |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
184708558X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847085580 |
| Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2012 |
| Translated from: |
Spanish |
| Description: |
A mesmerizing novel about identity and ghostly existences from a brilliant debut novelist, and the most exciting new voice to come out of Latin America since Roberto Bolano |
| Synopsis: |
A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life. Mutually distorting mirrors, their stories overlap into a powerful elegy of love and loss. |
| Reader Age: |
From 0 to 0 years |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Granta Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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