Cristina Rivera Garza

New and Selected Stories

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A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur genius Cristina Rivera Garza.One of Mexico's greatest living writers, wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018 about Cristina Rivera Garza, we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer. In the years since, Rivera Garza's work has received widespread recognition: She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for fiction that interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective, and was a finalist for the 2020 Nationa… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Booker, Sarah / Dillman, Lisa / González Arias, Francisca / Ross, Alex

ISBN: 978-1-948980-09-8
EAN: 9781948980098
Produktnummer: 36914815
Verlag: Penguin Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Ausstattung: BLK GRY BRN

Über den Autor

Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Taiga Syndrome, available from Dorothy, a publishing project. Originally written in Spanish, her books have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989, and is currently a distinguished professor in Hispanic studies and the director of creative writing at the University of Houston.Sarah Booker is a literary translator and doctoral candidate in Hispanic Literature at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where she studies contemporary Latin American narrative and translation studies. Her translations include Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest and Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country and Mónica Ojeda’s Jawbone.