Jakarta - Couverture souple

Tizano, Rodrigo Márquez

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566895634 ISBN 13 : 9781566895637

Editeur : Coffee House Press, 2019

Synopsis

In this hallucinatory novel of ruin and reconstruction, a man and his lover search for closure while a virulent plague hastens disaster in the world around them.

In a chaotic city, the latest in a line of viruses advances as a man recounts the fated steps that led him to be confined in a room with his lover while catastrophe looms. As he takes inventory of the city's ills, a strange stone distorts reality, offering brief glimpses of the deserted territories of his memory. A sports game that beguiles the city with near-religious significance, the hugely popular gambling systems rigged by the Department of Chaos and Gaming, an upbringing in schools that disappeared classmates even if the plagues didn't--everything holds significance and nothing gives answers in the vision realm of his own making.

The turbulent and sweeping world of Jakarta erupts with engrossing new dystopias and magnetic prose to provide a portrait of a fallen society that exudes both rage and resignation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rodrigo Márquez Tizano (Mexico City, 1984) is a writer. He has been the editor in chief of VICE magazine in Mexico and Argentina and is a founding editor of La Dulce Ciencia Ediciones, a publishing imprint dedicated to the world of boxing. He received his MFA from NYU and is completing a PhD at Cornell University. Jakarta is his first novel.

Thomas Bunstead has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, most recently The Optic Nerve by María Gainza and The Nocill Trilogy by Agustín Fernández Mallo. His own writing has appeared in publications such as the Paris Review Daily, Times Literary Supplement, and The White Review. He is an editor at the literary translation journal In Other Words.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Coffee House Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566895634
• ISBN 13: 9781566895637
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne