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Description:"Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller." --Daniel Alarcón, author of Lost City Radio and The King Is Always Above the People"It is not often that one encounters such a mix of personal engagement and literary passion, or pain and tenderness." --Andrés Neuman, author of Traveler of the Century and How to Travel Without SeeingIn Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father's Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salomón. But what, or who, really killed Salomón? As he goes deeper, he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South.Mourning is a subtle and stirring reflection on the formative and destructive power of family mythology, silence, and loss.Eduardo Halfon moved from Guatemala to the United States at the age of ten and attended school in South Florida and North Carolina. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roger Caillois Prize, and José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, he is the author of two previous novels published in The Polish Boxer, a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and finalist for the International Latino Book Award, and Monastery, longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mourning. To get started finding Mourning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller." --Daniel Alarcón, author of Lost City Radio and The King Is Always Above the People"It is not often that one encounters such a mix of personal engagement and literary passion, or pain and tenderness." --Andrés Neuman, author of Traveler of the Century and How to Travel Without SeeingIn Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father's Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salomón. But what, or who, really killed Salomón? As he goes deeper, he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South.Mourning is a subtle and stirring reflection on the formative and destructive power of family mythology, silence, and loss.Eduardo Halfon moved from Guatemala to the United States at the age of ten and attended school in South Florida and North Carolina. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roger Caillois Prize, and José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, he is the author of two previous novels published in The Polish Boxer, a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and finalist for the International Latino Book Award, and Monastery, longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mourning. To get started finding Mourning, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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