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Faces in the Crowd

Faces in the Crowd

Luiselli, Valeria
Macsweeney, Christina

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Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1566893542
ISBN13: 9781566893541
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: May 13 2014
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Awards: Best Translated Book Award, L.A. Times Book Prize
A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon nor fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York.

A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s, and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before, his friendships with Nella Larsen, Louis Zukofsky, and Federico Garcia Lorca, and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss.

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