Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa,Samantha Schnee
By Carmen Boullosa,Samantha Schnee
"Mexico's maximum lady writer."—Roberto Bolaño
"A luminous author . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"—Miami Herald
An creative author within the culture of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa exhibits herself to be on the peak of her powers along with her most recent novel. Loosely in keeping with the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the us, Texas is a richly imagined evocation of the unstable Tex-Mex borderland. Boullosa perspectives border heritage via exceptionally Mexican eyes, and her sympathetic portrayal of every of her wildly varied characters—Mexican ranchers and Texas Rangers, Comanches and cowboys, German socialists and runaway slaves, Southern belles and dancehall girls—makes her storytelling enormously robust and absorbing.
Shedding very important ancient mild on present battles over the Mexican–American frontier whereas telling a gripping tale with Boullosa's singular prose and formal innovation, Texas marks the welcome go back of a big author who has formerly captivated American audiences and is poised to take action again.
Carmen Boullosa (b. 1954) is considered one of Mexico's top novelists, poets, and playwrights. writer of seventeen novels, her books were translated into a variety of global languages. Recipient of diverse prizes and honors, together with a Guggenheim fellowship, Boullosa is presently exceptional Lecturer at urban collage of recent York.
Samantha Schnee is founding editor and chairman of the board of Words with out Borders. She has additionally been a senior editor with Zoetrope, and her translations have seemed within the Guardian, Granta, and the New York Times.
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