Ebook: Faces in the Crowd
Author: Luiselli Valeria, MacSweeney Christina
- Tags: Women authors, Fiction, Women authors -- Fiction, New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction, Mexico City (Mexico) -- Fiction, Mexico -- Mexico City, New York (State) -- New York
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Coffee House Press
- City: Mexico City (Mexico);Mexico;Mexico City;New York (N.Y.);New York (State);New York
- Language: English
- epub
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"An extraordinary new literary talent."—The Daily Telegraph
"In part a portrait of the artist as a young woman, this deceptively modest-seeming, astonishingly inventive novel creates an extraordinary intimacy, a sensibility so alive it quietly takes over all your senses, quivering through your nerve endings, opening your eyes and heart. Youth, from unruly student years to early motherhood and a loving marriage—and then, in the book's second half, wilder and something else altogether, the fearless, half-mad imagination of youth, I might as well call it—has rarely been so freshly, charmingly, and unforgettably portrayed. Valeria Luiselli is a masterful, entirely original writer."—Francisco Goldman
In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is...