Cristina García

The Lesser Tragedy of Death

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From the National Book Award-nominated author of Dreaming in Cuban, breathtakingly beautiful poems about her troubled, self-destructive brother (The Austin Chronicle). [A] brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astray; with skill, unflinching honesty, and redemptive compassion, Cristina García tracks his marvelous, complex, and errant life…These poems are the beautiful, painful, astonishing result of a journey to hell and back in search of the brother she loves. With this first book of poems, García, one of our best novelists and storytellers, proves herself to be a talented poet as well.-Julia Alvarez, author of Saving the World Garcia… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Abani, Chris (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-936070-79-4
EAN: 9781936070794
Produktnummer: 22550225
Verlag: Akashic Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 97 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 118 KB

Über den Autor

Cristina García is the author of several novels-including Dreaming in Cuban and A Handbook to Luck-anthologies, and books for young readers. The Lesser Tragedy of Death is her first collection of poetry. García's work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into a dozen languages. Chris Abani, curator of Akashic's Black Goat poetry imprint, is a Nigerian poet and novelist and the author of Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and GraceLand (a selection of the Today Show Book Club; winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award).