Season of the Swamp

New Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec man named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp along with a small group of fellow political exiles from Mexico. Later, in 1858, he is to become the first indigenous Mexican president, but now he is as anonymous and invisible as any other migrant to the roiling and alluring city. He falls in love with the music and food, but unavoidable, too, is the trade in human beings.
A magnificent work of speculative history and a love letter to New Orleans.
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Info autore

Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the Best Translated Book Award and was chosen by The Guardian as one of ‘The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century’. His second novel The Transmigration of Bodies was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and his sci-fi inflected collection of stories Ten Planets was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University, New Orleans.Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has translated a number of Spanish and Latin American writers. Her recent translations include The Bitch and Abyss by Pilar Quintana.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Yuri Herrera
• Con la collaborazione di: Lisa Dillman (Traduzione), Dillman Lisa (Traduzione)
• Editore: And Other Stories
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.11.2024
• EAN: 9781916751101
• ISBN: 978-1-916751-10-1
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, General & world history, History of the Americas, FICTION / Historical / Colonial America & Revolution, FICTION / World Literature / Mexico, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction, FICTION / Hispanic & Latino / General