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When Santiago Martinez, a gay writer and professor, returns to Colombia after his sister's suicide, he realizes that his years in Spain and New York City have left him longing for a tropical paradise that does not really exist
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Jaime Manrique's 1992 Latin Moon in Manhattan is one of the great under-recognized classics of gay male fiction. Now, with Twilight at the Equator Manrique shows himself once again to be both an exquisite writer and profound thinker. Twilight tells the story of Santiago Martinez, a young gay novelist who, after he is forced to deal with his sister's suicide, discovers that his family's past secrets are more than alive in the present, and just as dangerous. Manrique seduces us into believing the myth of the safe past, of secure history, of the happy family even as he begins to dismantle these ideas. Twilight at the Equator is a profoundly moving and beautifully written novel.
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"The male characters in Manrique's latest [novel] cross-dress as easily as they cross borders to assume European and American lives without fully eliminating the vestiges of their Colombian backgrounds. A young writer who has left a city in Colombia to seek his fortune in Madrid, Barcelona, and New York, Santiago Martinez often finds himself wistful for his hometown, which he remembers as a lush tropical, peaceful paradise instead of the drug-ridden and politically claustrophobic society it is. . . . Much more than the semi-autobiographical story the novel claims to be, this boisterous and tragic work addresses issues of solitude, exile, and self-discovery with generous feeling and honest emotion."-Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0571199011
- ISBN 13 9780571199013
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages198
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