Human Matter - A Fiction

In this provocative novel from an award-winning Guatemalan storyteller, a fiction writer dangerously delves into the long-buried National Police archive, exposing the legacies of systematic brutality and resistance.

List of contents

• Introduction
• First Notebook: Modo & Modo
• Second Notebook: Black Binding
  • Pages Attached to the Second Notebook
• First Sketchbook: Green Cover with Indian Motifs
  • Pages Attached to the First Sketchbook
• Third Notebook: White Cover
• Second Sketchbook: Don Quixote
• Fourth Notebook: Red and Blue Stripes on a White Background
  • Pages Attached to the Fourth Notebook
• Third Sketchbook: “Scribe”
• Fourth Sketchbook: Leather Cover, No Branding, No Name
• Fifth Sketchbook: Spanish Binding
• Author’s Note
• Translator’s Acknowledgments




About the author










Rodrigo Rey Rosa is the author of many acclaimed novels and short-story collections, among them Severina and La orilla africana (The African Shore). He is the recipient of one of Guatemala’s most distinguished literary prizes, the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature, as well as the prestigious José Donoso Prize.




Summary

In this provocative novel from an award-winning Guatemalan storyteller, a fiction writer dangerously delves into the long-buried National Police archive, exposing the legacies of systematic brutality and resistance.

Product details

• Authors: Rey Rosa, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Rodrigo Rey/ Aparicio Rosa
• Assisted by: Aparicio (Translation), Eduardo Aparicio (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781477316467
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1646-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Latin American Literature in T; Latin American Literature in T
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature