From a major new talent in Latin American literature comes a tale of cultures, languages, spirits, and the natural world on the brink of transformation
"Of all the happy, hermitic lands, the Guayra was the jewel."
So begins this polyphonic wonder of a novel set in a 17th-century Jesuit mission founded within the Brazilian wilderness by the mystical and intense Father Ruiz and his assistant Father Maceta. As the priests seek to convert the indigenous Guarani and unravel the many religious mysteries that surround them, the harmony of their community is abruptly upended by the arrival of Overa, who announces himself as the Son of God and younger brother of Jesus. But an even larger threat presents itself when word arrives that European marauders and slave hunters will soon descend upon the peaceful mission, compelling Overa and the priests to launch a mass exodus into the heart of the jungle.
Full of humor, passion, and terror, The Depopulation brilliantly evokes the moment when modernity's spark set fire to a still-magic world.
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"Marina Closs's writing trembles, sweats, explodes; she is, as of now, one of my favorite writers." -Monica Ojeda
"A luminous and dazzling novel . . . that evokes legendary tales. . . . It is the ease of the poetic prose-the cadence of the sentences, the power of certain images-that sustains this impalpable, marvelous world, a world in which everything seems created for the first time as in a living, playful, newly-born cosmogony." -Otra Parte
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 140 mm
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978-1-954276-60-4 (9781954276604)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Marina Closs grew up in a small town in the Misiones province of Argentina, an area steeped in the history that informs The Depopulation, her first novel to be published in English. She is the recipient of Argentina's Fondo Nacional de las Artes Prize and Angelica Gorodischer Prize, and has also been shortlisted for Spain's Finestres Prize and Ribera de Duero Prize. She lives in Santiago, Chile.
