The Ghost of You
Published on 31. March 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
139 pages
978-1-7770859-2-6 (ISBN)
Description
"The pieces in Margarita Saona's The Ghost of You resist classification--hovering between fables, tales, thoughts, and dreams spun with images that enchant and disenchant. Saona's collection creates a most brilliant uncertainty because the reader never knows when, "It is, and it isn't a game." Birds fall from the sky, mosquitoes, frogs, and crocodiles populate what seems to be everyday life. Immerse yourself in The Ghost of You because "The story is there, ready and waiting."" Wendy McGrath, author of The Santa Rosa Trilogy
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7770859-2-6 (9781777085926)
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Margarita Saona teaches Latin American literature and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was born in Peru and studied linguistics and literature at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. She received a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Columbia University in New York. She is interested in issues of memory, cognition, empathy, and representation in literature and the arts. She has published books on literary and cultural criticism such as Novelas familiares: Figuraciones de la nación en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea (Rosario, 2004) and Memory Matters in Transitional Perú (London, 2014), and Despadre: Masculinidades, travestismos y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana. Her short fiction collections are Comehoras (Lima, 2008), Objeto perdido (Lima, 2012), and La ciudad en que no estás (Lima, 2020). She also has a book of poems, Corazón de hojalata/Tin Heart (Chicago, 2017) and an unpublished collection of poems entitled Precaria materia. She is currently working two books, a short essay entittled De monstruos y cyborgs and Corazón en trance, a memoir about her experience of heart transplantation.