{"product_id":"apparitions-margo-glantz-paperback","title":"Apparitions -- Margo Glantz, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo nuns, and one obsessed mother, doing everything thing in their power to achieve communion with the one they love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSister Lugarda de la Encarnación takes the lash, and an unnamed mother gets down on her hands and knees--sacramental postures demanded by inscrutable men. \u003cem\u003eApparitions\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of ecstasy pursued, desire transmogrified into devotion, and obedience as a passionately pursued, not entirely free choice. Erotic, and suffused with painting, music, art, it's an incantatory exploration of what it means to abandon the world, and to use your body--in pain, and in pleasure--as a way of finally coming to know the divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margo Glantz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Charco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917260183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargo Glantz\u003c\/strong\u003e fused Yiddish literature, Mexican culture, and French tradition to create experimental new works of literature. Glanz graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1953 and earned a doctorate in Hispanic literature from the Sorbonne in Paris before returning to Mexico to teach literature and theater history at UNAM. A prolific essayist, she is best known for her 1987 autobiography \u003cem\u003eLas genealogías\u003c\/em\u003e (The Genealogies), which blended her experiences of growing up Jewish in Catholic Mexico with her parents' immigrant experiences. She also wrote fiction and nonfiction that shed new light on the seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Among her many honours, she won the Magda Donato Prize for \u003cem\u003eLas genealogías\u003c\/em\u003e and received a Rockefeller Grant (1996) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1998).She has been awarded honorary doctorates from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2005), the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (2010), and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2011). Glantz was awarded the 2004 National Prize for Sciences and the prestigious FIL Prize in 2010. She received Chile's Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Narrative Award in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEllen Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, editor, and translator from Spanish. Her recent translations include \u003cem\u003eBeyond Mestizaje: Contemporary Debates on Race in Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e edited by Tania Islas Weinstein and Milena Ang (2024), \u003cem\u003eCubanthropy\u003c\/em\u003e by Iván de la Nuez (2023) and \u003cem\u003eThe Remains\u003c\/em\u003e by Margo Glantz (shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023). Her monograph, \u003cem\u003eLiterature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e is published by Columbia University Press (2022). Her short fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eLitro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMagazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSlug\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe London Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Margo Glantz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487998001380,"sku":"9781917260183","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781917260183.jpg?v=1768943799","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/apparitions-margo-glantz-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}