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Our dead world

Colanzi Serrate, Liliana, 1981- author, Sequeira, Jessica, translator

Overview

\"A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A photographer witnesses a family's surface composure shatter during a portrait session. A worker on Mars sees ghostly animals in the desert and longs for an impossible return to Earth. A plastic surgeon botches an operation and hides on a sugar cane plantation where indigenous slavery is practiced. Horror and the fantastic mark the unstable realism of Our Dead World, in which altered states of consciousness, marginalized peoples, animal bodies, and tensions between tradition and modernity are recurring themes. Liliana Colanzi's stories explore those moments when the civilized voice of the ego gives way to the buzzing of the subconscious, and repressed indigenous history destabilizes the colonial legacy still present in contemporary Latin America.\"-- Provided by publisher

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Subject: Mothers and daughters Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781943150113

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PQ7822.C653 A2 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE