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Nervous System
Lina Meruane
Synopsis "Nervous System"
'Nervous System is fast, uncompromising and shimmering with intelligence' Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'Meruane is one of the one or two greats in the new generation of Chilean writers who promise to have it all' Roberto BolañoA young woman struggles to finish her PhD on stars and galaxies. Instead, she obsessively tracks the experience of her own body, listening to its functions and rhythms, finally locating in its patterns the beginning of illness and instability. As she discovers the precarity of her self, she begins to turn her attention to the distant orbits of her family members, each moving away from the familial system and each so different in their experiences, but somehow made similar in their shared history of illness and trauma, both political and personal...
Lina Meruane (Santiago de Chile, 1970). Su obra de ficción incluye la colección de relatos Las infantas (1998) y las novelas Póstuma (2000), Cercada (2000), Fruta podrida (2007) y Sangre en el ojo (2012, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz); esta última ha sido traducida al inglés, al francés, al alemán, al portugués y al italiano. Ha recibido los premios literarios Cálamo Otra Mirada (España, 2016) y Anna Seghers (Berlín, 2011), así como becas de la Fundación Guggenheim (2004), National Endowment for the Arts (2010) y DAAD Artists in Berlin (2017). Entre sus libros de no ficción se cuentan el ensayo Viajes virales (2012) y la crónica-ensayo Volverse Palestina (2014), merecedora del Premio del Instituto Chileno Árabe de Cultura en 2015. Actualmente enseña cultura latinoamericana y escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York.
