{"product_id":"austral-carlos-fonseca-hardcover","title":"Austral -- Carlos Fonseca, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJulio is a disillusioned professor of literature, a per-petual 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 man-uscript is a series of interconnected accouncs of loss, tales that set Julio hurtling on a journey to uncover their true meaning. \u003ci\u003eAustral \u003c\/i\u003etracks 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 anti-semitic commune in Paraguay founded by Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA story of mourning and return-to one's na-tive country, to one's darkest memories, to oneself- Carlos Fonseca's \u003ci\u003eAustral \u003c\/i\u003einterrogates the obsessions and upheavals faced by survivors of a rapidly glob-alizing world. A treasure map of intertwined ex-periences, each cleaving its own path through time, the novel is a fascinating investigation into the dis-appearance of culture and memory and a chart-ing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carlos Fonseca\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374606657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2023 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlos Fonseca\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Costa Rica in 1987, brought up in Puerto Rico and studied in the USA. He was selected by the Hay Festival as part of the \u003ci\u003eBogotá 39\u003c\/i\u003e group (2016), by \u003ci\u003eGranta \u003c\/i\u003emagazine as one of its list of the twenty-five best young Spanish-language writers (2021) and by \u003ci\u003eEncyclopaedia Britannica\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the twenty most promising writers in the world for their 'Young Shapers of the Future' (2022). His previous novels are \u003ci\u003eColonel Lágrimas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNatural History\u003c\/i\u003e, both translated by Megan McDowell. His work has been translated into more than ten languages. He is a lecturer at Cambridge University, where he is a fellow of Trinity College. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan McDowell\u003c\/b\u003e's translations have won the National Book Award, the English PEN Translation award and the Premio Valle Inclán; have been nominated four times for the International Booker Prize; and have been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. In 2020 she won the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is from Richmond, Kentucky, and lives in Santiago, Chile.","brand":"Fonseca, Carlos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44299585356004,"sku":"9780374606657","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/4137VHe6u7L.jpg?v=1719482348","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/austral-carlos-fonseca-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}