Description
Sergio Prim is a staid, middle-aged geographer. The romantic advances of Brezo Varela, a lively young woman who shares his profession, induce a series of terrifying hallucinations from which he attempts to seek refuge by immersing himself in the quest to map a place in which love never results in disillusionment. A lyrical examination of language, imagination, and desire. Belen Gopegui burst onto the Spanish literary scene in 1993, bowling over critics with her masterful debut La escala de los mapas (The Scale of Maps), which was hailed as a masterpiece. This is her first work translated into English.
Reviews/interviews in: The Bloomsbury Review, New Yorker, New York Times, Latino Review of Books, The Paris Review, Publishers Weekly, World Literature Today, PRI's World Books Excerpts in literary translation journals such as: TWO LINES, Metamorphoses (Smith College), Circumference (Columbia University), Conjunctions (Bard College) Online publicity in Words Without Borders, Conversational Reading, Three Percent (University of Rochester), The Rumpus, World Literature Today, Bookslut Academic course adoption for contemporary Spanish fiction courses. Exhibit at AWP, MLA. Advertise in CBSD's Poetry and Literature catalog. For his last book (Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poetry of David Huerta), translator Mark Schafer completed a multi-city national tour funded by various Mexican Consulates and Mexican Cultural Institutes, and universities including Swarthmore College, Boston University, and Georgetown University. Potential for similar tour for The Scale of Maps. Promotion on translator's website, http://www.marksonpaper.us/
About the Author
Belen Gopegui: Belen Gopegui was born in Madrid in October 1963. In 1993, she burst onto the Spanish literary scene with her first novel, La escala de los mapa [The Scale of Maps]. Her masterful debut bowled over critics, winning both the Tigre Juan Prize and the "Santiago del Nuevo Extremo" Iberoamerican Prize for First Novel. Since then, Gopegui has published six more novels, and her work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Polish, Turkish, Serbian, Finnish, and Dutch. Mark Schafer: Mark Schafer is a literary translator and visual artist who lives in Roxbury, Massachusetts and teaches Spanish and Translation at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Schafer has translated novels, short stories, essays, and poetry by other Latin American authors including Gloria Gervitz, Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Jesus Gardea, Eduardo Galeano, and Antonio Jose Ponte. Schafer has received numerous grants and awards for his translations, including the Robert Fitzgerald Prize and two Translation Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Schafer edited and translated the anthology Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poetry of David Huerta, which was published in January 2009 by Copper Canyon Press.
Book Information
ISBN 9780872865105
Author Beln Gopegui
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint City Lights Books
Publisher City Lights Books
Weight(grams) 283g
Reviews/interviews in: The Bloomsbury Review, New Yorker, New York Times, Latino Review of Books, The Paris Review, Publishers Weekly, World Literature Today, PRI's World Books Excerpts in literary translation journals such as: TWO LINES, Metamorphoses (Smith College), Circumference (Columbia University), Conjunctions (Bard College) Online publicity in Words Without Borders, Conversational Reading, Three Percent (University of Rochester), The Rumpus, World Literature Today, Bookslut Academic course adoption for contemporary Spanish fiction courses. Exhibit at AWP, MLA. Advertise in CBSD's Poetry and Literature catalog. For his last book (Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poetry of David Huerta), translator Mark Schafer completed a multi-city national tour funded by various Mexican Consulates and Mexican Cultural Institutes, and universities including Swarthmore College, Boston University, and Georgetown University. Potential for similar tour for The Scale of Maps. Promotion on translator's website, http://www.marksonpaper.us/
About the Author
Belen Gopegui: Belen Gopegui was born in Madrid in October 1963. In 1993, she burst onto the Spanish literary scene with her first novel, La escala de los mapa [The Scale of Maps]. Her masterful debut bowled over critics, winning both the Tigre Juan Prize and the "Santiago del Nuevo Extremo" Iberoamerican Prize for First Novel. Since then, Gopegui has published six more novels, and her work has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Polish, Turkish, Serbian, Finnish, and Dutch. Mark Schafer: Mark Schafer is a literary translator and visual artist who lives in Roxbury, Massachusetts and teaches Spanish and Translation at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Schafer has translated novels, short stories, essays, and poetry by other Latin American authors including Gloria Gervitz, Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Jesus Gardea, Eduardo Galeano, and Antonio Jose Ponte. Schafer has received numerous grants and awards for his translations, including the Robert Fitzgerald Prize and two Translation Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Schafer edited and translated the anthology Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poetry of David Huerta, which was published in January 2009 by Copper Canyon Press.
Book Information
ISBN 9780872865105
Author Beln Gopegui
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint City Lights Books
Publisher City Lights Books
Weight(grams) 283g
