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Mona

Autor Pola Oloixarac Traducere de Adam Morris
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 mar 2022
From Pola Oloixarac, the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, comes Mona, in which success as a "writer of color" proves to be a fresh hell for a young Latin American woman at a literary conference in Sweden.

Mona, a Peruvian writer based in California, presents a tough and sardonic exterior. She likes drugs and cigarettes, and when she learns that she is something of an anthropological curiosity-a woman writer of color treasured at her university for the flourish of rarefied diversity she brings-she pokes fun at American academic culture and its fixation on identity.

When she is nominated for "the most important literary award in Europe," Mona sees a chance to escape her downward spiral of sunlit substance abuse and erotic distraction, so she trades the temptations of California for a small, gray village in Sweden, close to the Arctic Circle. Now she is stuck in the company of all her jet-lagged-and mostly male-competitors, arriving from Japan, France, Armenia, Iran, and Colombia. Isolated as they are, the writers do what writers do: exchange compliments, nurse envy and private resentments, stab rivals in the back, and hop in bed together. All the while, Mona keeps stumbling across the mysterious traces of a violence she cannot explain.

As her adventures in Scandinavia unfold, Mona finds that she has not so much escaped her demons as locked herself up with them in the middle of nowhere. In Mona, Pola Oloixarac paints a hypnotic, scabrous, and ultimately jaw-dropping portrait of a woman facing down a hipster elite to which she does and does not belong. A survivor of both patronization and bizarre sexual encounters, Mona is a new kind of feminist. But her past won't stay past, and strange forces are working to deliver her the test of a lifetime.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250829573
ISBN-10: 1250829577
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 125 x 189 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: PICADOR

Notă biografică

Pola Oloixarac; Translated from the Spanish by Adam Morris

Recenzii

Enjoyably mischievous and daring
Both a wicked satire of the literary élite and an exploration of art and violence ... The novel is the kind that Mona imagines writing: 'terrifying, brilliant, and dangerous.'
Oloixarac's wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.
Oloixarac's writing is exciting because of its total commitment to maxing out ideas ... Revel in the exorbitant fictional constructions [Mona] produces.
Sly, bitter, and smart, Mona is at once a satirical comedy, a harrowing psychological portrait of a woman's dissociation, and a philosophical indictment of the hubris of now. Read it and be surprised