Fernanda Melchor

This is Not Miami (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Hughes, Sophie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A searing collection of true stories from one of Mexico's most exciting new voices (The Guardian)

Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating storiesspiraling from real eventsthat bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand themand even empathizedespite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811228060
• Artikelnr.: 66382859

Autorenporträt

Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is one of Mexico's most exciting new voices (The Guardian). Her novel Hurricane Season was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book.