El Caribe es un ombligo, profundo, infinito.... susurro. Me aprietan unos musculos firmes, me hace cosquillas la brisa de un aliento fresco. Tiembla San Andres extasiada. Y tiemblo yo.
A mil doscientas millas de tierra firme, resistencia raizal, turistas descuidados, y una historia embarrada sobre la conquista convergen para Victoria, quien vuelve a su hogar desde la Ciudad de Mexico lista para descifrarse a si misma y al lugar de donde viene.
Regresar a san Andres hace que Victoria Baruq cuestione su relacion con la isla. Una foto inquietante de sus tatarabuelos y el raro encuentro con Maa Josephine, una anciana raizal a quien conoce frente a la First Baptiste Church, son algunos de los detonantes que empiezan a revelar detalles de sus origenes. Su pasado no solo la pone en contacto con la desconocida historia de la isla, sino tambien con los movimientos sociales que, entre zouk y calipso, celebran la identidad raizal, hacen thinking rundowns, resisten.Esta obra fue ganadora del Premio de Novela Elisa Mujica 2018 (Colombia).
Five hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy vacationers, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Veronica, returning after living in Mexico City, ready to understand herself and the place she came from.
San Andres rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab traders, migrants from the mainland, and the descendants of everyone who came before.
For Victoria - whose origins on the island go back generations, but whose identity is contested by her accent, her skin colour, her years far away - the sunburnt tourists, sewage blooms, sudden storms, and 'thinking rundowns' where liberation is plotted and dinner served from a giant communal pot, bring her into vivid, intimate contact with the island she thought she knew, her own history, and the possibility for a real future for herself and San Andres.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Colombian writer Bendek's clear-eyed debut....heralds an intriguing new voice." -Publishers Weekly
"A brilliant and sensory overload of a novel." -The Crack Magazine
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Höhe: 196 mm
Breite: 130 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-1-913867-37-9 (9781913867379)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Cristina Bendek es una autora del Caribe. Nacio en la isla de San Andres en octubre de 1987. En 2018 su primera novela, Los cristales de la sal, resulto ganadora del Premio Nacional Elisa Mujica de novela (Colombia). La novela ha sido traducida al portugues, (Editora Moinhos, 2021), y al danes (Aurora Boreal, 2020). Para 2022 se proyecta el lanzamiento de una traduccion al ingles, asi como la circulacion de la novela en espanol en Reino Unido, Estados Unidos y Canada (Charco Press). Fragmentos de su trabajo tambien han aparecido en aleman. Cristina se dedica a estudiar literatura caribena y a escribir a tiempo completo.
Cristina Bendek is a Caribbean author. She was born on the island of San Andres (Colombia) in October 1987. In 2018 her first novel, Salt Crystals, won the Elisa Mujica National Novel Prize (Colombia). The novel has been translated into Portuguese (Moinhos, 2021), and Danish (Aurora Boreal, 2020), and now appears in English translation for the first time with Charco Press, which is also publishing the novel in Spanish for the North American readership. Cristina is also a journalist and spends her time researching Caribbean literature and writing fiction.
