Faces in the crowd / Valeria Luiselli
Luiselli, Valeria (1983-)
Faces in the crowd / Valeria Luiselli - Minneapolis : Coffee House Press , 2014 - 146 p. ; 22 cm.
A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen - an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
9781566893541
Women authors----Fiction
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
Mexico City (Mexico)---Fiction
LAS FIC LUI
Faces in the crowd / Valeria Luiselli - Minneapolis : Coffee House Press , 2014 - 146 p. ; 22 cm.
A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen - an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life.
Translated from the Spanish to English.
9781566893541
Women authors----Fiction
New York (N.Y.)----Fiction
Mexico City (Mexico)---Fiction
LAS FIC LUI
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