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Álvarez, Carlos Manuel

 
9781804271513: False War

Synopsis

The characters in False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's land. Some of them want to leave and can't, others left and never quite finished getting anywhere. In this choral novel, employing a dazzling range of narrative styles from noir to autofiction, Carlos Manuel Álvarez brings together a series of interconnected stories of the perennially displaced. From Havana to Mexico City to Miami, from New York to Paris to Ber

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À propos des auteurs

Carlos Manuel Álvarez is the author of The Fallen and The Tribe, and has written for the New York Times, El País and the Washington Post. He was selected as one of the twenty best Latin American writers born in the 1980s at the Guadalajara Book Fair; he was included in the Bogotá39 list of the best Latin American writers under 40; and he was chosen by a panel of judges for inclusion in Granta’s second Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists issue. He is the recipient of the Anagrama Chronicle Prize for Los Intrusos and the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde for the French translation of his novel The Fallen. 



Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her recent translations include Nona Fernández’s Voyager and Álvaro Enrigue’s You Dreamed of Empires. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and Columbia University. She is the recipient of a PEN Translation Award and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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The characters in False War are ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's land. Some of them want to leave and can't, others left and never quite finished getting anywhere. In this choral novel, employing a dazzling range of narrative styles from noir to autofiction, Carlos Manuel Álvarez brings together a series of interconnected stories of the perennially displaced. From Havana to Mexico City to Miami, from New York to Paris to Ber

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