Brickmakers - Couverture souple

Almada, Selva

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913867064 ISBN 13 : 9781913867065

Editeur : Charco Press, 2021

Synopsis

Author of International Booker Finalist Not a River

Two young men, Pájaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight: the culmination of a rivalry that has pitted them against one another since childhood. The present in Brickmakers is a state of impending death, at moments marked by dream-like visions: Marciano is visited by the ghost of his father, who was murdered when he was a teenager, a father he had sworn to avenge, in a promise he could not keep. Pájaro is also visited, in a recurring nightmare, by his abusive father who disappeared years earlier.

Narrated with fury and passion, reminiscent of William Faulkner or Katherine Anne Porter, Brickmakers is a rural tragedy in the great American tradition, a story of love, honour and violence where everything is at stake. Reprising the powerful imagery and the filmic landscape of The Wind That Lays Waste, and the threatening atmosphere of Dead Girls, Brickmakers is yet another proof of Almada’s extraordinary talent.

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À propos de l'auteur

Compared to Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor, Selva Almada is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectuals of the region.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Charco Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913867064
• ISBN 13: 9781913867065
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 197
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible