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Rubio, Carlos

 
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Synopsis

Secret Memories / Recuerdos secretos is a bilingual, highly introspective novel. It centers on two unnamed characters-a man who writes and a woman who paints-living together in an isolated beach house. They rarely speak, but their inner thoughts reveal an intense, mysterious connection and a shared, seemingly inevitable destiny.

Written largely as a stream of consciousness work emphasizing memory, desire, isolation, art, and the blurred boundary between imagination and reality. Its dreamlike imagery-including the woman's painting of a dagger-wielding Chinese man-builds toward a disturbing and symbolic climax

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À propos de l'auteur

CARLOS RUBIO was born in Cuba and came to the United States while still an adolescent. After finishing high school, he attended Concord College, West Virginia University and the University of Maryland.

A bilingual novelist, in Spanish he has written Saga, Orisha and Hubris. In 1989 his novel Quadrivium received the Nuevo Leóoacute;n International Prize for Novels. In English he is the the author of Orpheus's Blues, Secret Memories and American Triptych, a trilogy of satirical novels. In 2004 his novel Dead Time received Foreword's Magazine Book of the Year Award. His novel Forgotten Objects was published by Editions Dedicaces in 2014 and was a finalist in the Readers Choice Awards in 2015. More recently, his novel Doble Filo was a finalist in the 2018 Reinaldo Arenas International Prize for Novels and published in 2019 by Ediciones Alféeacute;izar in Spain.

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