Norte : A Novel

Resumen del libro

Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico?US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their stories and the stories of those they meet of a young serial killer, a waitress and graphic novelist and her lover (and former professor), and an outsider artist in a mental institution gradually begin to coalesce. Daring in both its protagonists and its structure, Edmundo Paz Sold n's Norte is a fast-paced, vivid, and operatic blending of distinct voices. Together, they lay bare the darkness of the line over which these souls like so many others have passed. A prominent member of a new generation of Latin American writers, Paz Soldan stands in defiant opposition to the magical realism of the past century, instead grounding his work in political, economic, and historical realities. Norte is no exception; it is a tale of displacement and the very human costs of immigration. Shocking with its violence even as it thrills with its language, confounding rather than cowering under the clich of the murderous, drug-dealing immigrant, Norte is a disquieting, imperative work an undeniable reflection of our fragmented modern world.

Biografía del autor

Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia, 1967) es escritor, profesor de literatura latinoamericana y director de la Facultad de Estudios Románicos en la Universidad de Cornell. Es autor de doce novelas, entre ellas Río Fugitivo, Norte, Los días de la peste y Allá afuera hay monstruos, y de seis libros de cuentos, entre ellos Las máscaras de la nada, Las visiones y La vía del futuro. Ha escrito los libros de ensayo Alcides Arguedas y la narrativa de la nación enferma y Segundas oportunidades. Almadía ha publicado Tiburón, una antología de sus cuentos, y La mirada de las plantas. Además, fue coeditor del libro de ensayos Bolaño salvaje. Sus obras han sido traducidas a doce idiomas y ha recibido galardones como el Premio Juan Rulfo de Cuento, por x{0026} x0201C;Docherax{0026} x0201D;, y el Premio Nacional de Novela de Bolivia por El delirio de Turing.