National Book Award for Translated Literature
The Abyss
An autobiographical novel about the collapse of a house and a family in Medellín, where grief, rage, and memory collide around a dying brother and a violent country.
作品情報
Beneath the rage, a trace of love and memory remains.
Against the collapse of a house and a family in Medellín, the novel lets grief, love, and political rage pour out around a dying brother. Its sharp, flowing voice leaves a faint but persistent trace of rescue inside memory.
書籍情報
- 出版社
- New Directions
- 発売日
- 2024-06-11
- ページ数
- 185ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.21 x 1.52 x 20.57 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780811238519
- ISBN-10
- 0811238512
- 価格
- 2925 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Political
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREThe Abyss
Fernando Vallejo, the acclaimed Colombian writer, filmmaker and public intellectual, was born in 1942 in Medellín, Colombia and obtained Mexican nationality in 2007. Author of Our Lady of the Assassins (made into a famous film by Barbet Schroeder), he is renowned in the Spanish-speaking world for his brilliant works and controversial opinions. The poet Yvette Siegert has also translated The Reef by Juan Villoro and Alejandra Pizarnik's poetry collections A Musical Hell, Diana's Tree , and Extracting the Stone of Madness , for which she won the 2017 Best Translated Book Award.