Faces in the crowd
Luiselli, Valeria, 1983-2012
Book
In the heart of Mexico City's vibrant, urban sprawl a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about her past. She has decided to write a novel about her days at a publishing house in New York; about the strangers who became lovers and the poets and ghosts who once lived in her neighbourhood. In particular, one of the obsessions of her youth - Gilberto Owen - an obscure Mexican poet of the 1920s, a marginal figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a busker on Manhattan's subway platforms, a friend and an enemy of Federico Garcia Lorca.As she writes, Gilberto Owen comes to life on the page; a solitary, faceless man living on the edges of Harlem's writing and drinking circles at the beginning of the Great Depression, haunted by the ghostly image of a woman travelling on the New York subway. Mutually distorting mirrors, their two lives connect across the decades between them; forming a single elegy of love and loss.
Main title:
Faces in the crowd / Valeria Luiselli ; translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney.
Work:
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2012.
Collation:
148 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781847085061 (pbk)1847085067 (pbk)9781847085078
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
13288
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Melbourne Library | Fiction Paperback | General L | Available |