Salt Crystals

Salt Crystals
Cristina Bendek, Robin Myers
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 150pg
27 Sep 2022 UK
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9781913867331
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San Andres rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab traders, migrants from the mainland, and the descendents of everyone who came before. For Victoria - whose origins on the island go back generations, but whose identity is contested by her accent, her skin color, her years far away - the sun-burned tourists and sewage blooms, sudden storms, and ' thinking rundowns' where liberation is plotted and dinner served from a giant communal pot, bring her into vivid, intimate contact with the island she thought she knew, her own history, and the possibility for a real future for herself and San Andres.
"Colombian writer Bendek' s clear-eyed debut. . . . heralds an intriguing new voice. " -Publishers Weekly
Cristina Bendek is a Caribbean author. She was born on the island of San Andres (Colombia) in October 1987. In 2018 her first novel, Salt Crystals, won the Elisa Mujica National Novel Prize (Colombia). The novel has been translated into Portuguese (Moinhos, 2021), and Danish (Aurora Boreal, 2020), and now appears in English translation for the first time with Charco Press, which will also launch the novel in Spanish for the North American readership. Some of her work has also been translated into German. . Cristina is also a journalist but spends her time researching Caribbean literature and writing fiction. She lives in Berlin. Robin Myers is a New York-born, Mexico City-based poet and translator. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming from the_ Kenyon Review_, the_ Harvard Review_, Two Lines, The Offing, Waxwing, Beloit Poetry Journal, Asymptote, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, and Inventory. In 2009, she was named a fellow of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA); in 2014, she was awarded a residency at the Banff Literary Translation Centre (BILTC); and in 2017, and she was selected to participate in the feminist translation colloquium A-Fest. Recent book-length translations include Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House Press), Animals at the End of the World by Gloria Susana Esquivel (University of Texas Press), an_d Cars on Fire _by Monica Ramon Rios (Open Letter Books).
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781913867331
Published: 27 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Charco Press
Publisher: Charco Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 150

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