Variations on the Body
Published on 6. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-56689-610-8 (ISBN)
Description
- These stories confront feminist and anti-imperial subjects such as female friendship and desire, women's relationships to their bodies and those of others, political insurgency, heteronormativity, state violence, and the strictures of economic and social class.
- Author teaches at Wesleyan and lives in CT; available for interviews and book events
- Stories are linked together by various characters, making a compelling. throughline/narrative arc that should broaden the audience beyond diehard short story readers.
- We're excited to bring a new Colombian author into English and onto our growing and acclaimed list of Latin American translations.
- Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary, who also translated Roque Larraquy's Comemadre, longlisted for the National Book Award in Translated Literature.
- For readers of Lesley Arimah, Carmen Boullosa, Idra Novey, and Joy Williams.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56689-610-8 (9781566896108)
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Persons
Heather Cleary's translations include Betina González's American Delirium, Roque Larraquy's Comemadre (nominee, National Book Award for Translated Literature 2018), and Sergio Chejfec's The Planets (finalist, Best Translated Book Award 2013) and The Dark (nominee, National Translation Award 2014). A member of the Cedilla & Co. translation collective and a founding editor of the digital, bilingual Buenos Aires Review, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.