ThE RUINS (Lazy Publisher) - Softcover

Reyes Ruiz, Rafael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1797824333 ISBN 13: 9781797824338

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

“Cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word, The Ruins is part genealogical search, part star-crossed romance, part ethnographic encounter, fused together in a spellbinding mystery that circumnavigates the globe. Reyes-Ruiz combines the trained eye of the anthropologist with the imagination of a seasoned novelist, managing to be learned and accessible at the same time. Highly recommended.”Peter Kalliney, William J. Tuggle Chair in English at the University of Kentucky. “Through the figure of Rodrigues, Reyes-Ruiz’s original and poignant work obliges us to do more than observe and take pictures of history’s casualties and catastrophes; it forces us to acknowledge the unpaid debt they have bestowed on our individual and collective investments in historical amnesia.”John D. Blanco, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC San Diego.

About this title

About the Author

RAFAEL REYES-RUIZ is a Colombian-American bilingual author, scholar, translator, and editor. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York. He taught at Oberlin College and Zayed University in Dubai. The Ruins is the first novel of the Roppongi Crossings trilogy, which portrays the lives of rootless expatriates in Japan who are ceaselessly searching for themselves and others. Each book stands on its own, and can be read in any order. Ediciones Alfar published the Spanish version of his first two novels in 2015 and 2016. La Pereza Ediciones published El samurái, the third novel, in 2018. La Casita Grande Media (LCG) published the English version of the other two novels, The Shape of Things and The Samurai in 2019.

From the Back Cover

"Through the figure of Rodrigues, Reyes-Ruiz's original and poignant work obliges us to do more than observe and take pictures of history's casualties and catastrophes; it forces us to acknowledge the unpaid debt they have bestowed on our individual and collective investments in historical amnesia."

John D. Blanco, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC San Diego.

"A haunting and moving testament of the transcultural and transhistorical web of contemporary human existence and the strivings of the human heart."

Hertha D. Sweet Wong, Professor of English at UC Berkeley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1797824333
• ISBN 13: 9781797824338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Publisher Lazy