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Liliana's Invincible Summer
A Sister's Search for Justice
Taschenbuch von Cristina Rivera Garza
Sprache: Englisch

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A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE

'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY
'Absorbing and poetic' ECONOMIST
'Full of tenderness and beauty' MARIANA ENRIQUEZFrom one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . . . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney's office: I seek justice.

On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza's sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide.

She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him.

Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence - handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints - to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister's voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.
A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE

'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY
'Absorbing and poetic' ECONOMIST
'Full of tenderness and beauty' MARIANA ENRIQUEZFrom one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.I seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . . . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney's office: I seek justice.

On the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza's sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide.

She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him.

Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence - handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints - to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister's voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.
Über den Autor
Cristina Rivera Garzais the award-winning author of The Taiga Syndrome and The Iliac Crest, among many other books. Her memoir Liliana's Invincible Summer won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies, and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
Zusammenfassung
Rivera Garza is a renowned author and academic, and the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship. She has won six of Mexico's highest literary awards, and her work has been praised by writers including Jorge Volpi, who named her his favourite writer, and Carlos Fuentes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781526649355
ISBN-10: 1526649357
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 566522
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rivera Garza, Cristina
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 194 x 125 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Cristina Rivera Garza
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,264 kg
Artikel-ID: 127760159
Über den Autor
Cristina Rivera Garzais the award-winning author of The Taiga Syndrome and The Iliac Crest, among many other books. Her memoir Liliana's Invincible Summer won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies, and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
Zusammenfassung
Rivera Garza is a renowned author and academic, and the recipient of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship. She has won six of Mexico's highest literary awards, and her work has been praised by writers including Jorge Volpi, who named her his favourite writer, and Carlos Fuentes
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Krimis & Thriller
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781526649355
ISBN-10: 1526649357
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 566522
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rivera Garza, Cristina
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Maße: 194 x 125 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Cristina Rivera Garza
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,264 kg
Artikel-ID: 127760159
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