Tomb song
Subtitle: a novel
By: Julián Herbert ; translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Contributors: Herbert, Julián, 1971-; MacSweeney, Christina, translator
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781555977993
Subjects: Fiction; Mothers and sons; Children of prostitutes; Terminally ill; Leukemia
Work titles: Canción de tumba
Description: As he sits by his dying mother, a son immerses himself in his memories of his childhood and youth while he investigates the complex relationship with his mother, his own children and his country, Mexico.
Notes: Translation from the Spanish of: Canción de tumba.

Premio Jaén de Novela, 2011

Premio de Novela Elena Poniatowska, 2012