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, Louis Zukofsky, and Federico Garcia 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."
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