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The Ghost of You

Luciana Erregue 

(Translator)
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Description

*Margarita Saona's sparse, clinically precise yet mysterious prose casts a spell upon her readers. Nothing says post-anthropocentric like Saona's stories. Her characters, resisting gender and other labels inhabit cities that while existing in the real world, refuse to be pinned down on a map. In Saona's stories, animals behave like humans, humans, like animals, or the elements, in a relentless phantasmagoria reminiscent of ancient mythology. This disembodiment is present in Saona's narrative style, having herself hovered between life and death shortly before receiving a life-saving new heart. The English translation, The Ghost of You, originally titled in Spanish La ciudad donde no estás, gives these ghosts an English-speaking home, in the hopes they can remain in the memory of their readers the same way someone's presence stills haunts a place. *Please see below for the updated Spring 2024 UTP Specials terms: UTP Frontlist Special Special: 50+ frontlist titles Discount: 45% Code: 1FRN Conditions: One order per code. Ends March 30th, 2024. Combinable across all Ampersand's participating UTP publishers. UTP Backlist Special Special: 50+ backlist titles Discount: 47% Code: BAC6 Conditions: One order per code. Ends December 31st, 2023. Combinable across all Ampersand's participating UTP publishers. Special: 50+ backlist titles Discount: 47% Code: BAC7 Conditions: One order per code. Starts January 1st, 2024. Ends December 31st, 2024. Combinable across all Ampersand's participating UTP publishers.

Product Details

PublisherLaberinto Press
Publish DateMarch 31, 2023
Pages139
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781777085926
Dimensions8.2 X 5.6 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds

About the Author

Margarita Saona teaches Latin American literature and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was born in Peru and studied linguistics and literature at Pontificia Universidad Cat--lica del Peru. She received a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Columbia University in New York. She is interested in issues of memory, cognition, empathy, and representation in literature and the arts. She has published books on literary and cultural criticism such as Novelas familiares: Figuraciones de la naci--n en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea (Rosario, 2004) and Memory Matters in Transitional Perú (London, 2014), and Despadre: Masculinidades, travestismos y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana. Her short fiction collections are Comehoras (Lima, 2008), Objeto perdido (Lima, 2012), and La ciudad en que no estás (Lima, 2020). She also has a book of poems, Coraz--n de hojalata/Tin Heart (Chicago, 2017) and an unpublished collection of poems entitled Precaria material. She is currently working on two books, a short essay entitled De monstruos y cyborgs and Coraz--n en trance, a memoir about her experience of heart transplantation.

Luciana Erregue is a Canadian Argentinian art historian, writer, translator editor, and publisher, director of Laberinto Press. Her translating credits include the anthology Beyond the Gallery and the translation of poems of Carina Sedevich for Agni Magazine and Fedosy Santaella for Polyglot Magazine.

Reviews

"The beauty in The Ghost of You is an experience in storytelling that one will not soon forget. It is a haunting that is done so gloriously that I realized at its end I was witness to the work of a modern master. This is a collection I will be grateful to return to and reread." Carrie Stanton, The Miramichi Reader "It fits on the shelf beside my beloved Clarice Lispector books, quite near books by Lydia Davis, C.D. Wright, Elisa Gabbert, Sarah Manguso, Kristjana Gunnars, Anne Boyer, Kate Zambreno, Mary Ruefle. And it's not like The Ghost of You, per se, resembles any of these books, but I suppose in my way I'm organizing a very interesting imaginary guest list for a cocktail party." Shawna Lemay, Author, Transactions With Beauty Blog.

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