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Zusatztext 68219006 Informationen zum Autor FRANCISCO GOLDMAN is the author of three novels: The Long Night of White Chickens, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The Ordinary Seaman, a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Divine Husband. Goldman is also the author of the non-fiction book, The Art of Political Murder: Who killed the Bishop?, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Economist. Goldman has been a contributing editor for Harper’s magazine, and his fiction, journalism and essays have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Esquire and The New York Times Magazine. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation grant and the T. R. Fyvel Freedom of Expression Book Award, and was a fellow at the American Academy of Berlin and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He currently directs the Premio Aura Estrada/Aura Estrada Prize (www.premioauraestrada.com). Goldman divides his time between Brooklyn and Mexico City. Klappentext In 1981! a 21-year-old Guatemalan-American writer burst onto the literary scene with a string of short stories in Esquire and Playboy. Over the next five years! in response to the horrors occurring in Central America! Francisco Goldman wrote highly acclaimed journalism for Harper's Magazine. Now he returns to fiction with this bicultural novel set in Guatemala. "It is a wonderful book . . . this remembrance of the Massachusetts life and Guatemalan death of Flor de Mayo Puac, sometime maid and confidante and older-sister to Roger Graetz . . . . Complex as history, funny as love, painful as death. The mystery of Goldman's Guatemala is the mystery of anyone's family, anyone's friendships and obsessions."--"The Washington Post Book World""It takes one's breath away. . . . Goldman pulls together the threads of the story brilliantly, moving back and forth in time like a nimble Mayan weaver creating an elaborate huipil."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review" "Francisco Goldman, in this fine first novel, delivers a complete world, sensual, tender and painful in its friendships, and expansive in its memory. . . . With a wealth of startling detail, he gives us a world that feels as if it could almost be touched."--"San Francisco Chronicle" "Francisco Goldman's beautiful first novel is at once a story about a boy growing up in two cultures, a love story, and a mystery about an unsolved murder. It is meditation, investigation and chronicle written in lyrical, evocative English . . . . Flor is a compelling and enigmatic personality.""--Boston Globe" ""The Long Night of White Chickens" is one of the most extraordinary first works to be published in decades. Not since Nabokov's infamous "Lolita" or Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" has an author displayed such mastery of contemporary literary method."--"The San Francisco Review of Books" "A tale that sensitively depicts the very best of human dignity and love. . . . Brilliantly crafted. . .with great skill and poetic beauty. . . .[Chickens] has the ability to captivate the reader with its powerful descriptive voice."--"The Christian Science Monitor""This book is a jewel. . . . It is an insistent story, filled with characters who keep whispering to us long after we've put the book down. . . . A book about the many faces of truth, full of love and hum Zusammenfassung Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award! The Long Night of White Chickens marked the brilliant debut of Francisco Goldman’s internationally acclaimed writing career. The Long Night of White Chickens is a novel born of two worlds: It is the story of Roger Graetz! raised in ...
