Roque Larraquy

The National Telepathy (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Wynne, Frank

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A sloth with a special gift in a shocking, imaginative farce that queers and undermines the glories of great men and their thirst for power.

At the port of Buenos Aires in September 1933, the Peruvian Rubber Company delivers nineteen indigenous people from the Amazon to Amado Dam, a highly respected citizen and member of a committee charged with creating the first ever Ethnographic Theme Park in Argentina. And among the human cargo is an unaccounted for box, harboring a sloth with a fascinating yet terrifying secret. How will this discovery become a state secret over time and under the control of the National Telepathy Commission? Roque Larraquy, one of the most original voices in contemporary Argentinean literature, brings us a shocking, bizarre, brazen, imaginative novel that lays all-too-bare the secret longings and not-so-secret machinations of a social class that will stop at nothing in order to stay in power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Charco Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781913867911
• Artikelnr.: 69760632

Autorenporträt

Roque Larraquy (Buenos Aires, 1975) is the author of the novels La comemadre (2011), nominated for the USA National Book Awards (2018), the National Translation Book Award (2018) and the Dublin Literary Award (2020); Informe sobre ectoplasma animal (2014), a book illustrated by visual artist Diego Ontivero; and The National Telepathy, chosen as one the best ten books in Spanish of 2020 by The New York Times , and so far translated into Portuguese, English and French. Until 2022 Larraquy was the inaugural director of the BA in Creative Writing at the Universidad Nacional de Las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Frank Wynne is a literary translator. Born in Ireland, he moved to France in 1984 where he discovered a passion for language working as a bookseller in Paris. He began translating literature in the late 1990s before deciding to devote himself to this full time. He has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Ahmadou Kourouma, Boualem Sansal, Claude Lanzmann, and Almudena Grandes. His work has earned him several awards, including the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán. Most recently, his translation of Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes was shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018. In 2022 his translation of The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter won the Dublin Literary Award.