Name: An Orphan World
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Author: Giuseppe Caputo
ISBN: 9781916465626

Type

Physical Book

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Translated by

Publisher

Year

2020

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x13x1.8 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781916465626

Synopsis "An Orphan World "

In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water. Rather than being discouraged by their difficulties and hardship, their response is to come up with increasingly bizarre and imaginative plans in order to get by. Even when a horrifying, macabre event rocks the neighborhood and the locals start to flee, father and son decide to stay put. What matters is staying together.This is a bold, poignant text that juxtaposes a very tender father-son relationship with the son's sexual liberation and a brutal depiction of homophobic violence. Giuseppe Caputo uses delicate - yet electrifying - lyricism and imagery to weave a tale that balances desire, violence, discrimination, love, eroticism and defiance, while evoking with surreal humor the social marginalization of the protagonists as they struggle to keep afloat in a society where there are no safety nets.Like a brightly-lit theme park with its house of horrors, reminiscent in parts of James Baldwin's Another Country or Virginie Despentes' Vernon Subutex trilogy, An Orphan World defies the reader to look away, and the reward is an exhilarating carnival ride filled with beauty, compassion and loss.

Giuseppe Caputo

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Giuseppe Caputo was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1982. He graduated in Creative Writing from New York University and the University of Iowa, and is the author of the novels Un mundo huérfano (Literatura Random House, 2018) and Estrella madre. The translation of Un mundo huérfano into English, by Juana Adcock and Sophie Hughes, received an English Penn Award. Caputo was the cultural director of the Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo) between 2015 and 2018, and is one of the writers selected in the Hay Festival Bogotá 39 2017 list. He is currently a teacher and coordinator of the Master's in Creative Writing at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo.

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