In the Beginning Was the Sea

Death in paradise: sea, sex and a sinister downward spiral on a Caribbean coast

About the author

Tomás González was born in 1950 in Medellín, Colombia. He studied Philosophy before becoming a barman in a Bogotá nightclub, whose owner published In the Beginning Was the Sea, his first novel, in 1983. González has lived in Miami and New York, where he wrote much of his work while making a living as a translator. After twenty years in the US, he returned to Colombia, where he now lives. His books have been translated into six languages. In the Beginning Was the Sea is González's first book to be published in English.frank wynne is an award-winning translator
from French and Spanish. He has won
the IMPAC Award, the Independent Foreign
Fiction Prize and the Scott Moncrieff Prize.
He has translated a number of Spanish and
Latin American authors, including Tomás Eloy
Martínez, Isabel Allende and Arturo Pérez-
Reverte.

Summary

Death in paradise: sea, sex and a sinister downward spiral on a Caribbean coast

Foreword

They left in search of paradise, and found themselves in hell.

Product details

• Authors: Tomas Gonzalez, Tomás González
• Assisted by: Wynne Frank (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.2015
• EAN: 9781782271659
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-165-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Kolumbianische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary