| Uniform title | Essays. Selections. English |
| Series |
Undelivered lectures ; 03
Undelivered lectures ; 03. ^A1439051
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| Contents |
Migratory birds -- Cappadocia -- Cassandra -- Normandy -- The other lost boys and girls -- Özdamar's tongue -- Koblenz -- Berlin -- Mimesis in VHS -- Trümmerfrauen -- Blueprint for a house. |
| Abstract |
"In her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories: language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, Oliver leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of a Berlin marked by historical fracture, recalls a shocking childhood exodus, and recreates the intimacy of the spaces we inhabit. Blending criticism, reportage, and a travel writing all her own, Oliver presents a brilliant collection of essays that asks us what it means to leave the familiar behind and make the unfamiliar our own."-- Provided by publisher |
| Abstract |
A sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli's "Sidewalks." |
| General note | Originally published in Spanish as Aves migratorias, ©2014. |
| Language | Text in English, translated from the Spanish. |
| Genre/form | Travel writing. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Travel writing. |
| ISBN | 9781945492525 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 194549252X (paperback) |
