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Austral (Paperback)
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"A tender and thoughtful exploration of the painful irony of being
alive and our attempts to make sense of the past as well as the
present" KATHARINA VOLCKMER, author of The Appointment "A
reflection on identity, rootlessness and violence - Fonseca's most
ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date" JAVIER
CERCAS, author of Soldiers of Salamis "A beautifully knotted novel
which unfolds with every traced layer of its deeply affecting
narrative alongside a meditation on memory, mystery and vanishing.
Sebaldian in its turns, Austral is a novel of profound questions"
GUY GUNARATNE, author of Mister, Mister A dazzling novel about the
traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to
rebuild. In this innovative novel three losses and three quests are
pursued. English writer Aliza Abravanel tries, in a battle with
aphasia, to finish her book. A last indigenous speaker is
confronted with the fading of his culture and language while an
anthropologist struggles to prevent it. And through the
construction of an esoteric theatre of memory, a survivor of the
Guatemalan genocide of the 1970s and '80s seeks to recover the
memories lost after the traumas of war. And behind these three
threads lies the narrator's own story: Julio, a disillusioned
university professor, must try to understand and complete his
friend Aliza's novel, and come to terms with a past he shared with
her but has blanked for thirty years. From the Guatemalan
wilderness to the high Peruvian Amazon, passing through Nueva
Germania, the anti-Semitic commune founded in Paraguay by
Nietzsche's sister, Austral takes us on a long journey south,
following a trail of ecological and cultural destruction to
excavate contemporary xenophobia. "Reminiscent of the best of
BolaƱo, Borges and Calvino" Guardian Translated from the Spanish
by Megan McDowell
General
Imprint: |
MacLehose Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2024 |
Authors: |
Carlos Fonseca
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Translators: |
Megan McDowell
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5294-2261-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-5294-2261-2 |
Barcode: |
9781529422610 |
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