Faces in the crowd
by Valeria Luiselli
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A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life.
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Women authors, Fiction, Fiction, generalPlaces
New York (N.Y.), Mexico City (Mexico)Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Translation of: Los ingrávidos.
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