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"Winner of a 2020 MacArthur "genius" award for fiction that "interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective," Cristina Rivera Garza is a singular voice in contemporary letters, one who American readers are still discovering. New and Selected Stories brings together in English translation stories from across her career, including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and remarkable body of work, and a window onto the ever-evolving stylistic and thematic development of one of the boldest, most original, most affecting writers in the world today"--
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Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including
The Taiga Syndrome, available from Dorothy, a publishing project. Originally written in Spanish, her books have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989, and is currently a distinguished professor in Hispanic studies and the director of creative writing at the University of Houston. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for her memoir
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice.Sarah Booker is a literary translator and doctoral candidate in Hispanic Literature at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where she studies contemporary Latin American narrative and translation studies. Her translations include Cristina Rivera Garza’s
The Iliac Crest and
Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country and Mónica Ojeda’s
Jawbone.
Riassunto
A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza.
“One of Mexico’s greatest living writers,” wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018 about Cristina Rivera Garza, “we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer.” In the years since, Rivera Garza has been awarded a MacArthur “Genius Grant” for fiction that “interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective,” and was finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism.
New and Selected Stories now brings together in English translation stories from across Rivera Garza’s career, including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and remarkable body of work, and a window onto the ever-evolving stylistic and thematic development of one of the boldest, most original and affecting writers in the world today.
Testo aggiuntivo
"The stories in this collection are as varied as Rivera Garza’s remarkable career, and this book is an excellent introduction to a unique writer who deserves to be recognized not just in Mexico, but all over the world." — Kirkus, starred review
"This hypnotic, riveting collection of new and previously published stories from MacArthur Fellow Rivera Garza (Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, essays) takes on love, migration, and violence . . .These unsettling yet deeply approachable stories ought to earn Rivera Garza the wider attention she deserves." Publishers Weekly, starred review
