Description
28th Jaén Novel Prize. "This dark, sprawling novel was the English language debut of Emiliano Monge, a Mexican writer who is often compared to the US literary superstar Cormac McCarthy. Written in a tone that evokes McCarthy's unrelenting classic Blood Meridian, the novel tells the story of Germán Alcántara Carnero, a dangerous campesino fighting to survive in rural 20th century Mexico, and also a metaphor for the spiraling violence of contemporary Mexican society." ―Culture Trip Set on a desolate, unnamed mesa, Emiliano Monge's The Arid Sky distills the essence of a Latin America ruthlessly hollowed out by uncontainable violence. This is an unsparing yet magnificent land, whose only constants are loneliness, hatred, loyalty, and the struggle to return some small measure of meaning to life. Thundering and inventive, The Arid Sky narrates the signature moments in the life of Germán Alcantara Carnero: a man who is both exaltedly, viscerally real and is an ageless, nameless being capable of embodying entire eras, cultures, and conflicts. Monge's roadmap―an escape across borders, the disappearance of a young girl, the confrontation between a father and his son, the birth of a sick child, and murder―takes readers on a journey to the core of humankind that posits a challenge of the kind only great literature can pose.
Author: Emiliano Monge
Publisher: Debolsillo
Published: 03/21/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.88w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9786073820639
ISBN10: 6073820631
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Emiliano Monge (Ciudad de México, 1978) es politólogo y escritor. Ha publicado los libros de relatos Arrastrar esa sombra (2008) y La superficie más honda (Literatura Random House, 2017); las novelas Morirse de memoria (2010), El cielo árido (Literatura Random House, 2012; ganadora del XXVIII Premio Jaén de Novela y del V Premio Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos), y Las tierras arrasadas (Literatura Random House, 2015), ganadora del IX Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska y del English PEN Award, así como del libro infantil Los insectos invisibles (2013). Relatos suyos aparecen en varias antologías, entre las que destacan Lo desorden (Alfaguara, 2013), México20: New Voices, Old Traditions (2015) y Bogotá39: New Voices From Latin America (2018). Ha recibido reconocimientos de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, del Conaculta, del Hay Festival, de Bogotá39 y del Consejo Británico. Su obra ha sido traducida a diversos idiomas.