'Do you glow in the dark?' In 1987, an unsecured source of radiotherapy was stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiania, Brazil, resulting in four deaths and 249 contaminations. Liliana Colanzi's debut collection is inspired by this radiological disaster, where each story seizes the reader's attention through her unpredictable and original storytelling. Colanzi transgresses the distinction between reality and fiction, time and genre, to create a striking exploration of toxic waste and its impact on local lives and the environment. Where a harmless object or place holds an invisible threat and the reader is left wondering what is real. You Glow in the Dark is an impactful and experimental collection that exemplifies the genius of Colanzi's writing.
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'An eerie mix of the familiar and unreal . . . the heat and toxic radiation - and the babble of inner voices - combine to create a hallucinatory vision.' -- Anderson Tepper * Four New Books in Translation Test the Bounds of Reality * 'In Colanzi's writing, reality is grander and weirder than we imagined.' -- Drew Zeiba * A Secret and Threatening Reality: On Liliana Colanzi's "You Glow in the Dark" * 'In [Colanzi's] tales, violence is something in the air or soil, something ready to take us over or occupy our lives at any moment.' -- Leah Rachel von Essen * The Violence of Human Folly in "You Glow in the Dark" by Liliana Colanzi * 'You Glow in the Dark is a mesmerizing mix of gothic horror and cyberpunk that will keep readers on their toes.' -- Shannon Carlin * The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 | You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi * 'A revelation' -- El Pais 'Liliana Colanzi's short stories hit hard; they are creepy and beautiful in equal measure. They are excellent examples of this literary form - and how it can be utilized, bent and even transformed.'
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Verlagsort
Maße
Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83675-004-8 (9781836750048)
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Liliana Colanzi was born in Bolivia in 1981. She teaches Latin American literature at Cornell University and is the founding publisher of Dum Dum editora in Bolivia. In 2022, You Glow in the Dark won Spain's Ribera del Duero Short Story Prize and in 2025 it was the recipient of the Zinklar Award for short story writers.
Chris Andrews was born in Australia in 1962. He has won the Valle-Inclan Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for his translations, which include nine books by Roberto Bolano and ten books by Cesar Aira. He has published critical studies and poetry, including the collection Lime Green Chair, for which he won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.
