Name: This is not Miami
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Author: Fernanda Melchor
ISBN: 9780811228053

Type

Physical Book

Author

Fernanda Melchor

Translated by

Sophie Hughes

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811228053

Synopsis "This is not Miami"

Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories--spiraling from real events--that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them--and even empathize--despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

Fernanda Melchor

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Fernanda Melchor nació en el puerto de Veracruz, en México. Es autora del libro de crónicas Aquí no es Miami (2018) y de las novelas Falsa liebre (2013; 2022), Páradais (2021) y Temporada de huracanes (2017), esta última traducida a más de treinta idiomas y finalista del prestigioso premio Booker International en 2020. Todos ellos publicados por Random House. Su trabajo ha merecido diversos reconocimientos nacionales e internacionales, como el Premio Anna Seghers 2019, el Premio Internacional de Literatura de Alemania y el Premio PEN a la Excelencia Literaria 2018.

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