Cristina Rivera Garza

Broschiertes Buch

The Iliac Crest

Beschreibung

On a dark, stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women: one a former lover, the other a stranger. They ruthlessly question their host and claim to know his greatest secret: that he is, in fact, a woman. A fascinating study of perception and identity, this surreal novel enfolds an exploration of gender in taut, atmospheric mystery.

Autor

Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning author, translator and critic, and the only two-time winner of the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (2001; 2009). She is currently Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 165g
• ISBN-13: 9781911508267
• ISBN-10: 1911508261
• Artikelnr.: 50882831

Rezensionen

Rivera Garza's novel succeeds as a suspenseful psychological horror story in the vein of a David Lynch film or Ingmar Bergman's Persona, as a dissolver of the space between genders, and as a challenge to the cultural erasure of the real-life Dávila. The result is mind-bending.' Publishers Weekly, starred review'Rivera Garza's taut language drives the mystery forward, and she plays cleverly with the literary and political histories of Mexico, the importance of queer visibility, and the silencing of female authorship. An existential gothic tale about the high stakes of understanding - and accepting - the self.' Kirkus Reviews'A key work of Mexican literature.' Elena Poniatowska'An intelligent, beautiful story about bodies disguised as a story about language disguised as a story about night terrors. Cristina Rivera Garza does not respect what is expected of a writer, of a novel, of language. She is an agitator.' Yuri Herrera'Warning: Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer yet to be fully accounted for in English. An insubordinate stylist, a skilled creator of atmospheric and haunting language, The Iliac Crest is a willfully queer piece where the workings of her wild imagination destabilize everything.' Lina Meruane