The Book of Emma Reyes - A Memoir in Correspondence

In this startlingly original memoir, composed of twenty-three letters written over the course of thirty years, Emma Reyes describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the death of its author, the portrait that emerges from this clear-eyed account inspires awe at the stunning early life of a gifted writer and artist who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but whose talent remained hidden for far too long.>

Product details

• Authors: Emma Reyes, Reyes Emma
• Assisted by: Daniel Alarcón (Introduction), Daniel Alarcon (Translation), Daniel Alarcón (Translation)
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781474606615
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-0661-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Diaries, letters & journals, Colombia, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Diaries, letters and journals, Autobiography: writers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs