Umami
Autor Laia Jufresa Traducere de Sophie Hughesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 apr 2017
It started with a drowning.
Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old still coming to terms with the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the rainy, smoggy summer she decides to plant a vegetable garden in the courtyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. As the ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge — Who was my wife? Why did my mom leave? Can I turn back the clock? And how could a girl who knew how to swim drown?
Using five voices to tell the singular story of life in an inner city mews, Umami is a quietly devastating novel of missed encounters, missed opportunities, missed people, and those who are left behind. Compassionate, surprising, funny and inventive, it deftly unpicks their stories to offer a darkly comic portrait of contemporary Mexico, as whimsical as it is heart-wrenching.
Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old still coming to terms with the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the rainy, smoggy summer she decides to plant a vegetable garden in the courtyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. As the ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge — Who was my wife? Why did my mom leave? Can I turn back the clock? And how could a girl who knew how to swim drown?
Using five voices to tell the singular story of life in an inner city mews, Umami is a quietly devastating novel of missed encounters, missed opportunities, missed people, and those who are left behind. Compassionate, surprising, funny and inventive, it deftly unpicks their stories to offer a darkly comic portrait of contemporary Mexico, as whimsical as it is heart-wrenching.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781780748924
ISBN-10: 1780748922
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 130 x 191 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Oneworld Publications
Colecția Oneworld Publications
ISBN-10: 1780748922
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 130 x 191 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Oneworld Publications
Colecția Oneworld Publications
Recenzii
"Ms. Jufresa: Where the f*#! did you learn to tell a story so well?" —Álvaro Enrigue, award-winning author of Sudden Death
"Laia Jufresa possesses the wisdom of the oldest of souls and the endearing spontaneity of a child. Her writing is serious and playful in equal measure; her observations, at once brutal and full of empathy and tenderness. Reading her is like traveling through the minds of everyone we know, guided by a soft, reliable voice that tells us: stop, listen, observe." —Valeria Luiselli, award-winning author of The Story of My Teeth
"A wonderfully surprising novel, powered by wit, exuberance and nostalgia." —Chloe Aridjis, author of Book of Clouds and Asunder
"Laia Jufresa possesses the wisdom of the oldest of souls and the endearing spontaneity of a child. Her writing is serious and playful in equal measure; her observations, at once brutal and full of empathy and tenderness. Reading her is like traveling through the minds of everyone we know, guided by a soft, reliable voice that tells us: stop, listen, observe." —Valeria Luiselli, award-winning author of The Story of My Teeth
"A wonderfully surprising novel, powered by wit, exuberance and nostalgia." —Chloe Aridjis, author of Book of Clouds and Asunder
Notă biografică
Laia Jufresa was born in Mexico City. Laia’s work has been featured in several anthologies and magazines such as Letras Libres, Pen Atlas, Words Without Borders and McSweeney's, and she was named one of the most outstanding young writers in Mexico as part of the project Mexico20. In 2015 she was invited by the British Council to be the first ever International Writer in Residence at the Hay Festival of Literature. She currently lives in Cologne, Germany.
Sophie Hughes is a literary translator and editor living in Mexico City.
Sophie Hughes is a literary translator and editor living in Mexico City.