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The Abyss by Vallejo, Fernando
by Vallejo, Fernando | PB | LikeNew
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780811238519
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811238512
ISBN-13
9780811238519
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8062635633
Product Key Features
Book Title
Abyss : a Novel
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Political, Lgbt / General
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
6.3 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-004625
Reviews
A deep sense of loss and urgency separates The Abyss from Vallejo's previous works... Vallejo's novel is about how to care for oneself and others, human and nonhuman beings, when everything seems doomed., Vallejo inserts the violence battering his country into the very language of his text where words are no mere reflection, they are the violence that startles and overwhelms the reader.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION Finally, the Colombian Fernando Vallejo's masterpiece, The Abyss, is available in English in a stunning translation by Yvette Siegert, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Winner of the Rómulo Gallego Prize, The Abyss is a caustic masterwork of incredible power and force, an unforgettable autobiographical work of queer fiction. The novel tells about the demise of a crumbling house in Medellín, Colombia. Fernando, a writer, visits his brother Darío, who is dying of AIDS. Recounting their wild philandering and trying to come to terms with his beloved brother's inevitable death, Fernando rants against the political forces that cause so much suffering. Vallejo is the heir to Céline, Thomas Paine, and Machado de Assis. He hurls vitriolic, savagely funny insults at his country ("I wipe my ass with the new Constitution of Colombia") and at his mother ("the Crazy Bitch") who has given birth to him and his many siblings. Within this firestorm of pain, Fernando manages to get across much beauty and truth: that all love is painful and washed in pure sorrow. He loves his sick brother and the family's Santa Anita farm (the lost paradise of his childhood where azaleas bloomed); and he even loves his country, now torn to shreds. Always, in this savage masterpiece about loss--as if in the eye of Vallejo's hurricane of talent--we are in the curiously comforting workings of memory and of the writing process itself, as, recollecting time, it offers immortality.
LC Classification Number
PQ8180.32.A4277D4713
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