Name: Death Takes me
Price: 750.00 TWD
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Author: Cristina Rivera Garza
ISBN: 9781526649430

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Physical Book

Author

Cristina Rivera Garza

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781526649430

Death Takes me

Cristina Rivera Garza (Author) · Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Death Takes me"

A city is always a cemetery When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body scrawled in coral nail polish Beware of me my love beware of the silent woman in the desert After reporting the crime to the police the professor becomes the lead informant of the case led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back But what has the professor really seen While more bodies of men are found across the city the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems and the darker stream of violence spreading throughout the city From one of Mexico s greatest living writers Death Takes Me is a dark and dazzling literary thriller that flips the traditional crime narrative on its head in a world where death is rampant and violence is gendered Unfolding with the charged logic of a dream in sentences as sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims a word which in Spanish is always feminine it explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality PRAISE FOR CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA Warning Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer A dexterous creator of atmospheres with a pow

Cristina Rivera Garza

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Cristina Rivera Garza. Author. Translator. Critic. Her most recent books are Autobiography of Cotton (Literatura Random House, 2020) and Grieving. Dispatches from a Wounded Country (The Feminist Press, 2020, translated by Sarah Booker, finalist for the NBCC Award). In 2020, she received the MacArthur Fellowship. Distinguished professor and founder of the PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

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