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Beschreibung
PARTED GODS opens in the suspended breath between life and impact, a van, a sunset, a body lifted into the air, and from that instant unfolds a story that refuses to sit still. Antonella Adamo, a celebrated painter on the edge of collapse, finds herself slipping into the memories of her twin brother Federico, a jazz pianist finally stepping into the light. Together they move through Berlin's restless art world, the myth stained shores of Sicily, and a final reckoning in New Orleans where love, art, and fate collide.

What begins as a narrative of twins becomes something stranger and more mythic. Parted Gods asks what it means to be split from the person who completes you and whether art can repair the fracture or only deepen it.

Félix-Díaz brings a cinematic sensibility shaped by his work in theater, poetry, and screenwriting. The result is a novel that moves like music, lyrical, urgent, and deeply alive. Parted Gods feels as expansive as myth and as intimate as memory.
PARTED GODS opens in the suspended breath between life and impact, a van, a sunset, a body lifted into the air, and from that instant unfolds a story that refuses to sit still. Antonella Adamo, a celebrated painter on the edge of collapse, finds herself slipping into the memories of her twin brother Federico, a jazz pianist finally stepping into the light. Together they move through Berlin's restless art world, the myth stained shores of Sicily, and a final reckoning in New Orleans where love, art, and fate collide.

What begins as a narrative of twins becomes something stranger and more mythic. Parted Gods asks what it means to be split from the person who completes you and whether art can repair the fracture or only deepen it.

Félix-Díaz brings a cinematic sensibility shaped by his work in theater, poetry, and screenwriting. The result is a novel that moves like music, lyrical, urgent, and deeply alive. Parted Gods feels as expansive as myth and as intimate as memory.
Über den Autor
Born in Mexico and partly raised in California, Alfredo Félix-Díaz has published four booksof poems, one of which won second prize in Spain's young poets Adonais Award in 2008. In2016, he published the stage play in verse To Steal the Day, set in the trenches of World WarI. He has lived in different European cities since 2013. In 2016, the SINAI Orchestral Theatre staged YUSUF'S, a piece of lyrical theater in English written by Félix-Díaz specially for the ensemble. In 2018, he directed a production of his play To Steal the Day in Berlin's Theater im Delphi.Former professor of 20th Century European Literature at Mexico City'sUniversidad Iberoamericana, Félix-Díaz now works as a screenwriter. He has written or co-written films and TV series for 20th Century Fox, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Televisa and Lionsgate. His ballet libretto SuFrida, written with Tonatiuh Gómez, Principal Dancer of the San Diego Ballet, will be staged in September of 2026 at Mexico City's Auditorio Nacional. His novel Parted Gods will be published by Unsolicited Press in March of 2026. His book of poems As Ghosts in Other Birds will come out, also with Unsolicited Press, in 2027.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781963115901
ISBN-10: 1963115902
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Félix-Díaz, Alfredo
Hersteller: Unsolicited Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Alfredo Félix-Díaz
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.03.2026
Gewicht: 0,489 kg
Artikel-ID: 134880950