The Weight of Temptation: Latin American Women Writers
Autor Ana María Shua Traducere de Andrea G. Labingeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2012
Into the midst of this methodical madness comes Marina Rubin, who experiences all the excesses of The Reeds. The pervasive cruelty of this refined novel distances it from facile conclusions. Amid the mordant social satire, The Reeds’ obese campers are far more than merely victims of the system, subjected to impossible social demands for physical perfection. Out of control, fierce, rebellious, or subjugated, they are recognizable human beings, contending with an unjust but efficient authority in their unique and solitary ways.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803239777
ISBN-10: 0803239777
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Latin American Women Writers
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0803239777
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Nebraska Paperback
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Latin American Women Writers
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Ana María Shua’s work Microfictions and her novel Death as a Side Effect are available from the University of Nebraska Press. Andrea G. Labinger is a professor of Spanish emerita from the University of La Verne in Southern California. Her many translations include Shua’s Death as a Side Effect, Alicia Steimberg’s The Rainforest (Nebraska, 2006), and Call Me Magdalena (Nebraska, 2001).
Cuprins
1. Weighing In
2. Fast Day
3. The Group
4. Case History I
5. The Barracks
6. Case History II
7. Beat Your Face
8. Case History III
9. The Clockwork Orange
10. Case History IV
11. The Inferno
12. The Phone Call
13. The Campfires
14. New Friends
15. His Own Grave
16. Food Trafficking
17. Sob Stories
18. The Farewell Party
19. The Orgy
20. Elephant Seals
21. I Have a Lover
22. It Had to Be Esteban
23. The Divine Comedy
24. Passion
25. Carola
26. Under Cover
27. Betrayal
28. At the Finish Line
29. Survival
30. The Unforeseen
31. The Crossing
32. The New Order
33. Outside
2. Fast Day
3. The Group
4. Case History I
5. The Barracks
6. Case History II
7. Beat Your Face
8. Case History III
9. The Clockwork Orange
10. Case History IV
11. The Inferno
12. The Phone Call
13. The Campfires
14. New Friends
15. His Own Grave
16. Food Trafficking
17. Sob Stories
18. The Farewell Party
19. The Orgy
20. Elephant Seals
21. I Have a Lover
22. It Had to Be Esteban
23. The Divine Comedy
24. Passion
25. Carola
26. Under Cover
27. Betrayal
28. At the Finish Line
29. Survival
30. The Unforeseen
31. The Crossing
32. The New Order
33. Outside
Recenzii
“Shua ridicules the idea of thinness as . . . an aristocratic model, as well as the institutions that promote that ideal. [The Weight of Temptation] is a sharp, funny, acid, and entertaining novel.”—Patricio Lennard, Radar: Página/12
“Who’s not afraid of those extra pounds? Who doesn’t need the mirror’s daily reassurance? Who doesn’t fear ugliness and isolation as even more unbearable than death? In her latest novel, Ana María Shua tracks the unhappy path of the obese to those murky institutions that claim omnipotence.”—Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazu, Perfil
“Written in a rich, colloquial language stripped of euphemism, alternately raw and seductive.”—Marta Ortiz, La Capital
"Are thinness, youth and beauty really the ultimate values of the human race? Science fiction, allegory or parody, this tasty little novel serves up a witty parody of today's calorie-obsessed culture to sweeten its merciless, well-aimed bite."—Nick DiMartino, Nick's Picks, University Book Store, Seattle
"Shua’s The Weight of Temptation is an insightful piece of literature demonstrating the harsh realities based on the concerns of what it means to be overweight."—Brittany Gilbert, Big Muddy
"[The Weight of Temptation] offers an incredible new look into the cyclic addiction to food and fans of dystopian literature, political parables, and food aficionados will find this to be a newly relevant twist on an old tale."—Three Percent