
A Father Is Born
Robin Myers
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July 8, 2025
Description
The moving story of a man becoming a father, written by the winner of the 2009 Alfaguara Award.
"I am delighted that we are together, my son, becoming what we will both be."
A man awaits his son's birth. Captivated, he follows the mother's pregnancy, imagining the child that will transform his house, his language, his relationship, and his family history. For a year, he annotates the memorable first steps leading the three of them into these new existential situations: being a father, a mother, a son; three different characters in a universal story, told in newly born words. A situation further complicated when the child begins speaking and articulating his world.
A Father Is Born is a lyrical tale that resonates both on intimate and collective levels. Its understanding of fatherhood faces masculinity with the miracle of life and its incessant rereading of the present. In a time that redefines traditionally attributed roles, A Father Is Born accepts Anne Waldman's invitation: "Tell the man to give up tumult for the while / To wonder at the sight of baby's beauty." But it is also, and above all, a love statement.
Product Details
Publisher | Open Letter |
Publish Date | July 08, 2025 |
Pages | 180 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781960385413 |
Dimensions | N/A |
About the Author
Reviews
"It is impossible to classify Andrés Neuman: each of his books is a new language adventure, guided by the intelligence and the pleasure of words. He never ceases to surprise us and is, doubtlessly, one of the most daring writers in Latin American literature, willing to change, challenge and explore, always with a unique elegance."--Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire
"The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman and a few of his blood brothers."--Roberto Bolaño
"One of the things I love about Andrés Neuman's work is how he restores writing as the most powerful source of knowledge. Fracture, this dazzling and devastating novel, is a terric demonstration of that."--Alejandro Zambra, author of Ways of Going Home
"Traversing languages and cultures, decades and generations, Fracture unites its many fragments to form a powerful and redemptive vision of a single, and unbroken, human life. A searching, humane, and vital novel."―Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries
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