Mourning
By: Eduardo Halfon ; translated by Lisa Dillman & Daniel Hahn
Contributors: Dillman, Lisa, translator; Hahn, Daniel, translator
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781942658443
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Family secrets; Fiction; Drowning victims
Work titles: Duelo
Description: In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father's Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salomón. But what, or who, really killed Salomón? As he goes deeper, he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South.
Notes: Translation from the Spanish of: Duelo.