Austral
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Author
Contributors
McDowell, Megan, translator.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION FONSEC 2023
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FICTION FONSEC 2023
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"From the author of Natural History, a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
"From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known. Julio is a disillusioned professor of literature, a perpetual wanderer who has spent years away from his home, teaching in the United States. He receives a posthumous summons from an old friend, the writer Aliza Abravanel, to uncover the mysteries within her final novel. Aliza had raced to finish her work as her mind deteriorated. In her manuscript is a series of interconnected accouncs of loss, tales that set Julio hurtling on a journey to uncover their true meaning. Austral tracks Julio's trip from Aliza's home in an Argentine artists' colony to a forgotten city in Guatemala, to the Peruvian Amazon, and through Nueva Germania, the antisemitic commune in Paraguay founded by Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche. A story of mourning and return-to one's native country, to one's darkest memories, to oneself Carlos Fonseca's Austral interrogates the obsessions and upheavals faced by survivors of a rapidly globalizing world. A treasure map of intertwined experiences, each cleaving its own path through time, the novel is a fascinating investigation into the disappearance of culture and memory and a charting of the furthest limits of what language can do. With this remarkable exploration of the traces we leave behind, chose we erase, and how we seek to rebuild, Carlos Fonseca confirms his status as one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Latin American literature."--,Provided by Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Fonseca, C., & McDowell, M. (2023). Austral (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fonseca, Carlos, 1987- and Megan, McDowell. 2023. Austral. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fonseca, Carlos, 1987- and Megan, McDowell. Austral Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Fonseca, Carlos, and Megan McDowell. Austral First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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