num_pages: 280
description: The stories in this collection are as varied as Rivera Garzas remarkable career and this book is an excellent introduction to a unique writer who deserves to be recognized not just in Mexico but all over the world.Kirkus starred reviewOne of Mexicos greatest living writers wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018 about Cristina Rivera Garza we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer. In the years since Rivera Garzas work has received widespread recognition: she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for fiction that interrogates culturally constructed notions of language memory and gender from a transnational perspective as well as the Jos Donoso Prize and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Yet we have still only started to discover the full range of a writer who is at once an incisive voice on migration borders and violence against women as well as a high stylist in the manner of Lispector or Duras.New and Selected Stories brings together in English translation stories from across Rivera Garzas career drawing from three collections spanning over 30 years and including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and remarkable body of work and a window into the ever-evolving stylistic and thematic development of one of the boldest most original and affecting writers in the world today.
language: English
title: New and Selected Stories
publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project