Faces in the Crowd
Author(s): Valeria Luiselli
A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Granta Books
- : Granta Books
- : 30 April 2012
- : 216mm X 135mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 July 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : 272
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Valeria Luiselli