Hypothermia - Couverture souple

Enrigue, Alvaro

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1564788733 ISBN 13 : 9781564788733

Editeur : Dalkey Archive Press, 2013

Synopsis

Hypothermia explores the perilous limits of love, language, and personality, the brutal gravity of cultural misunderstandings, and the coldly smirking will to self-destruction hiding within our irredeemably carnal lives.

Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy; an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his career; a hapless garbage man who dreams of life as a pirate; and a prodigiously talented Polish baritone waging musical war against his church.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alvaro Enrigue was born in Mexico in 1969. He is an essayist, critic, professor, and the author of several novels and short story collections. His first novel La muerte de un instalador won the 1996 Joaquin Mortiz Prize. In 2007, the "Bogota39" project named him one of the most promising Latin American writers of his generation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dalkey Archive Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1564788733
• ISBN 13: 9781564788733
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible