Norte
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chicago, Il, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Norte
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780226207346
First sentence: He dropped out of school to hang out more with his cousins.
Description: Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the the Mexico‒US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their stories and the stories of those they meet—of a young serial killer, a waitress and graphic novelist and her lover (and former professor), and an outsider artist in a mental institution—gradually begin to coalesce. Daring in both its protagonists and its structure, Edmundo Paz Soldán’s Norte is a fast-paced, vivid, and operatic blending of distinct voices. Together, they lay bare the darkness of the line over which these souls—like so many others—have passed.A prominent member of a new generation of Latin American writers, Paz Soldán stands in defiant opposition to the magical realism of the past century, instead grounding his work in political, economic, and historical realities. Norte is no exception; it is a tale of displacement and the very human costs of immigration. Shocking with its violence even as it thrills with its language, confounding rather than cowering under the cliché of the murderous, drug-dealing immigrant, Norte is a disquieting, imperative work—an undeniable reflection of our fragmented modern world.
Notes: Villa Ahumada, Northern Mexico, 1984
Landslide, Texas, 2008
Stockton, California, 1931
Villa Ahumada, 1984
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1985
Landslide,1985
Landslide, 2008
Stockton, California, 1931-194
Ciudad Juárez, México
Smithsville, Texas, 1985
Smithsville, Texas, 1985
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; various US cities, 1985-1988
Landslide, 2008
Starke, Florida, 1988-1994
Landslide, 2008
Ciudad Juárez, Villa Ahumada, 1994
Auburn, California, 1948-1952
Landslide, 2008-2009
Rodeo, Mexico; various US cities, 1994-1997
Landslide, 1997
Auburn, 1952-1959
Landslide, 2009
Houston, Texas, 1999
La Grange, Texas, 1999
Landslide, 2009
Rodeo, 1999
Auburn, 1959-1963
Rodeo, 1999
Landslide, 2009
Texas and New Mexico, 1999
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1999
Landslide, 2009
Landslide, 1999
Epilogue: Huntsville, Texas, 1999-2009.