The American Seduction

Roser Caminals

ISBN 10: 0997129980 / ISBN 13: 9780997129984

Edité par Somondoco Press, Shepherdstown, WV, 2019

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New paperback in perfect condition. binding straight, pages clean and unmarked. Roser Caminals is a celebrated Catalan author, her most popullar book has been translated into English as The Street of the Three Beds as has her first novel, Once Remembered, Twice Lived, and her translation of the Spanish classic by Emilia Pardo Bazan, The House of Ulloa. Since 1981 Caminals has lived in Frederick, Marryland, as a Professor of Foreign Languages at Hood College. The American Secution is her translation of her memoir first published to high praise in Barcelona. It recounts her life in the United States and her many travels across the country. The book captures both the "seduction " of Middle America and the numerous thing her foreign eye spots as distinctive. She sees both what to admire and so criticize, and she does so eloquently. Perhaps most impressive iss the way the author uses her novelist's skills to depict a series of memorable people she meets, with a pitch-perfect ear for their voices and an acute ability to depict their characters. No one who reads this book will forget the places she visits or the people she meets or the fluencey of her polished prose.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The American Seduction
• Éditeur: Somondoco Press, Shepherdstown, WV
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0997129980
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780997129984
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Roser Caminals earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Barcelona. A native of Barcelona, she is the author of seven novels and one non-fiction book. Her work, published in three languages (Catalan, English, and Spanish), and in paperback, hardback, and digital form, has been featured at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1996 she won first prize in narrative at the Jocs Florals de la Diàspora, a contest for Catalan writers outside of Catalonia, for Les herbes secretes (The Secret Herbs). Since then she has received critical acclaim in the Spanish media (newspapers, radio, and television), as well as in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada. Her novel Cinc-cents bars i una llibreria (Five-Hundred Bars and One Bookstore) was celebrated in La Vanguardia as “one of the best Catalan novels written in recent years”. She also has an interest in literary translation. Her English rendition of the Spanish classic Los Pazos de Ulloa (The House of Ulloa), by Emilia Pardo Bazán, was published by The University of Georgia Press and earned her a grant-award from the Spanish Embassy in 1992. Roser Caminals is an Emerita Professor of Spanish at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, and is married to author William Heath.