
Empty Set
Veronica Gerber Bicecci(Author)
Coffee House Press
Published on 1. March 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-56689-494-4 (ISBN)
Description
Gerber Bicecci's novel, recommended to us by Valeria Luiselli, is the latest in our Latin American translation program and another collaboration with Christina MacSweeney.
The author is also a visual artist and the novel is built around her original, Thurber-esque illustrations and diagrams, which tweak the narrative, giving it both depth and buoyancy.
Like The Story of My Teeth, Empty Set is a playful novel which uses a conceit (in this case, diagramming relationships) to take on ideas. Here: absence, the disappeared, and the physics of time.
The appeal of Zambra's Multiple Choice, backed with a story that unfolds in loops and hopscotches, but remains immediate, trackable, and charmingly nostalgic.
Empty Set will have patterned end-papers, echoing the drawings inside, and signaling the charm of this little novel.
The author is also a visual artist and the novel is built around her original, Thurber-esque illustrations and diagrams, which tweak the narrative, giving it both depth and buoyancy.
Like The Story of My Teeth, Empty Set is a playful novel which uses a conceit (in this case, diagramming relationships) to take on ideas. Here: absence, the disappeared, and the physics of time.
The appeal of Zambra's Multiple Choice, backed with a story that unfolds in loops and hopscotches, but remains immediate, trackable, and charmingly nostalgic.
Empty Set will have patterned end-papers, echoing the drawings inside, and signaling the charm of this little novel.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
234 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56689-494-4 (9781566894944)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Veronica Gerber Bicecci: Veronica Gerber Bicecci is a visual artist who writes. In 2013 she was awarded the third Aura Estrada prize for literature. She is an editor with Tumbona Ediciones, a publishing cooperative with a catalogue that explores the intersections between literature and art.