| Among Strange Victims Contributor(s): Saldaña París, Daniel (Author), Macsweeney, Christina (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1566894301 ISBN-13: 9781566894302 Publisher: Coffee House Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015033493 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.7" (0.60 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd....like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky's Underground Man.--John Powers, Fresh Air "Daniel Salda a Par s knows how to talk about those other tragedies populating daily life: a boring, unwanted marriage; mind numbing office work; family secrets. He builds on those bricks of tedium a greatly enjoyable and splendidly well-written suburban farce." --Yuri Herrera Rodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, Among Strange Victims is a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up. Daniel Salda a Par s (born Mexico City, 1984) is an essayist, poet, and novelist whose work has been translated into English, French, and Swedish and anthologized, most recently in Mexico20: New Voices, Old Traditions, published in the United Kingdom by Pushkin Press. Among Strange Victims is his first novel to appear in the United States. He lives in Montreal, Quebec. |