Name: This is not Miami
SKU: 54911628
Price: 586.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Fernanda Melchor
ISBN: 9781804270189

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fernanda Melchor

Publisher

Fitzcarraldo Editions,

Language

English

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781804270189

This is not Miami

Fernanda Melchor (Author) · Fitzcarraldo Editions, · Paperback

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Synopsis "This is not Miami "

Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories - spiraling from real events - that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These cronicás - a genre unique to Latin American writing that blends reportage, narrative non-fiction, and novelistic forms - probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them - and even empathize - despite our wish to disdain them as monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, and once again brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes, Fernanda Mechor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

Fernanda Melchor

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Fernanda Melchor (Boca del Río, June 3, 1982) is a Mexican writer and translator internationally known for her novel Hurricane Season. With a hardened writing style, she perfectly portrays the violence and its consequences on the lives of Mexico's inhabitants. This has been translated into more than thirty languages and was a finalist for the prestigious Booker International Prize in 2020

She is also the author of the chronicle book This is Not Miami (2018) and the novels False Hare (2013; 2022), Páradais (2021). All published by Random House. Her work has earned various national and international awards, such as the Anna Seghers Prize 2019, the International Literature Prize of Germany, and the PEN Award for Literary Excellence 2018.

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