Seeing Red - Hardcover

Meruane, Lina

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9781786493132: Seeing Red
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1786493136 ISBN 13: 9781786493132
Publisher: Atlantic Books, 2017

Synopsis

Lucina, a young Chilean writer, has moved to New York to pursue an academic career. While at a party one night, something that her doctors had long warned might happen finally occurs: her eyes haemorrhage. Within minutes, blood floods her vision, reducing her sight to sketched outlines and tones of grey, rendering her all but blind. As she begins to adjust to a very different life, those who love her begin to adjust to a very different woman - one who is angry, raw, funny, sinister, sexual and dizzyingly alive.

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About the Author

Lina Meruane is one of the most prominent and influential female voices in Chilean contemporary literature. She received her PhD in Latin American Literature from New York University, where she currently serves as professor of World and Latin American Literature and Creative Writing. Megan McDowell's translations have been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, The Paris Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders, and Vice, among others.

Review

What I really admired in Seeing Red is Meruane's equal commitment to strong, spare prose and the moral messiness of suffering and loss in a place of safety. She refuses to make a neat or easy story, stays true to the uncomfortably arbitrary nature of sickness and sorrow, denies her narrator and therefore her reader the comforts of heroism while insisting on the redemptive possibilities of literary form. -- Sarah Moss * Author of 'The Tidal Zone' * A novel of genius and disturbing intelligence * Enrique Vila-Matas * Meruane is one of the one or two greats in the new generation of Chilean writers who promise to have it all * Roberto Bolano * Stunning... Black and bitter and bloody and beautiful * The Nation * Viscous, repulsive, and beautiful * New Yorker * Astonishing... Burns with vigour and urgency * Los Angeles Times * Seeing Red is outstanding; complex yet graceful, gnarly yet beautiful. The best book I've read this year. -- Sara Baume * Author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither *

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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1786493136
ISBN 13 
9781786493132
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
176
Rating
  • 3.86 out of 5 stars
    3,033 ratings by Goodreads

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