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Loading... Faces in the Crowd (2011)by Valeria Luiselli
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |  I would give it a higher rating if I could have liked the novelist and the poet more. As it is, 3.5, and recommended if you want to be left in strange confusion. (  ) a.lu | Jan 4, 2023 | ) rosscharles | May 19, 2021 | I was very intrigued though by the style of the book because I don't think I've read a book before told purely through vignettes with no sections or anything to give structure to the book. There were also lots of descriptions and lines that were really insight and compelling so I am interested in trying another book by this author in the future. Content Warning: sex and masturbation, racism/racist language, stereotyping people based on race, suicide, fat-phobic language, and I think other things that I'm probably forgetting ( ) Sara_Cat | Mar 6, 2021 |  ) albertgoldfain | Jun 5, 2020 | AwardsNotable Lists
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Literature.
HTML: A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before; his friendships with Nella Larsen and Federico García Lorca; and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. .No library descriptions found. |
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