Yuri Herrera: Season of the Swamp
Season of the Swamp
Buch
- Graywolf Press, 10/2024
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781644453070
- Bestellnummer: 11753913
- Umfang: 160 Seiten
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 210 x 140 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.10.2024
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juâarez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city of New Orleans. Accompanied by a small group of fellow exiles who plot their return and hoped-for victory over the Mexican dictatorship, Juâarez immerses himself in the city, which absorbs him like a sponge. He and his compatriots work odd jobs, suffer through the heat of a southern summer, fall victim to the cons and confusions of a strange young nation, succumb to the hallucinations of yellow fever, and fall in love with the music and food all around them. But unavoidable, too, is the grotesque traffic in human beings they witness as they try to shape their future. Though the historical archive is silent about the eighteen months Juâarez spent in New Orleans, Yuri Herrera imagines how Juâarez's time there prepared him for what was to come. With the extraordinary linguistic play and love of popular forms that have characterized all of Herrera's fiction, Season of the Swamp is a magnificent work of speculative history, a love letter to the city of New Orleans and its polyglot culture, and a cautionary statement that informs our understanding of the world we live in"--Biografie
Yuri Herrera, geboren 1970 in Actopán / Mexico. Studierte an der UNAM in Mexico D.F. und an der University of Texas, El Paso, promoviert in Berkeley. Herausgeber der Zeitschrift El perro (Der Hund). Bisher erschienen zwei Romane. Sein erster Roman wurde 2003 mit dem mexikanisch-amerikanischen Preis "Border of Words", 2009 mit dem Preis "Otras Voces, Otros ámbitos" ausgezeichnet. Yuri Herrera
Season of the Swamp
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