Faces in the crowd
By: Valeria Luiselli ; translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Contributors: MacSweeney, Christina, translator
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781566893541
Subjects: Women authors; Fiction
Work titles: Ingrávidos
Description: A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet living in a run-down apartment in Philadelphia in the 1950s. While she tells the story of her past as a young editor in New York City desperately trying to convince a publisher to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen-an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence constantly haunts her in the subway-she also relates the slow but inevitable disintegration of her present family life.