Gloria - Solano, Andrés Felipe
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"It is a bright spring Saturday: April 11, 1970. The famous Argentine singer Sandro is about to become the first Latin American to perform at Madison Square Garden, and Gloria will be one of the lucky attendees at what will be a legendary concert. At just twenty years old, the young woman walks through the electric streets of New York City full of hope and possibility. The disturbing images she recently encountered at her job at a photographic laboratory, the trauma of a father who was murdered when she was a child, and even the long-term prospects of her relationship with Tigre, her irascible…mehr

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"It is a bright spring Saturday: April 11, 1970. The famous Argentine singer Sandro is about to become the first Latin American to perform at Madison Square Garden, and Gloria will be one of the lucky attendees at what will be a legendary concert. At just twenty years old, the young woman walks through the electric streets of New York City full of hope and possibility. The disturbing images she recently encountered at her job at a photographic laboratory, the trauma of a father who was murdered when she was a child, and even the long-term prospects of her relationship with Tigre, her irascible boyfriend, are problems for another day. This day should be perfect and should last forever. Which it will, in surprising and unexpected ways. Five decades later, Gloria's son reflects on his mother's life and realizes that their formative years-imprinted as they are by sojourns in New York at exactly the same age-are a bridge between generations that draws the pair closer through a shared sense of longing and potential"--
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Autorenporträt
ANDRÉS FELIPE SOLANO is the author of the novels Sálvame, Joe Louis, Los hermanos Cuervo, and Cementerios de neón. He also published “Salario mínimo,” an essay about his experience as a factory worker for six months. Corea, apuntes desde la cuerda floja, a nonfiction book about his life in South Korea, received the 2016 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana prize and was translated into Korean in 2018. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders, and Freeman's . He was featured in Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. He currently lives in Seoul. WILL VANDERHYDEN is an award-winning translator who has translated several books for Open Letter, Deep Vellum, and Akashic.