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Faces in the Crowd

In Mexico City, she is a mother and wife who no longer leaves the house. In New York City, she was a young editor who rarely slept in her own bed. As her new existence begins to disintegrate around her, she thinks back to her life on the fringes of the literary scene, the strangers who became lovers, the poets who became ghosts. And, increasingly now, she is haunted by one of the obsessions of her youth: the obscure Mexican poet, Gilberto Owen, a marginal figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a friend and an enemy of Federico Garcia Lorca, a busker on the Manhattan subway platform who was himself haunted by the ghostly image of a young woman on a passing train.

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  • "In Mexico City, she is a mother and wife who no longer leaves the house. In New York City, she was a young editor who rarely slept in her own bed. As her new existence begins to disintegrate around her, she thinks back to her life on the fringes of the literary scene, the strangers who became lovers, the poets who became ghosts. And, increasingly now, she is haunted by one of the obsessions of her youth: the obscure Mexican poet, Gilberto Owen, a marginal figure of the Harlem Renaissance, a friend and an enemy of Federico Garcia Lorca, a busker on the Manhattan subway platform who was himself haunted by the ghostly image of a young woman on a passing train."@en
  • "Eine junge Frau lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren beiden Kindern in einem Haus in Mexiko City und schreibt an einem Roman. Sie verlässt das Haus nicht, sie kann es aber auch nicht richtig bewohnen. So beginnt sie zu erzählen. Von ihrem Mann, von ihren Kindern, von ihrer Vergangenheit. Wie sie als junge Lektorin in New York verzweifelt versucht hat, den Verleger davon zu überzeugen, das Werk von Gilberto Owen zu publizieren, diesem obskuren mexikanischen Dichter, der in den 20er-Jahren in Harlem lebte und mit Federico Garcia Lorca befreundet war. Seine geisterhafte Gegenwart hat sie verfolgt und verfolgt sie immer noch ... Sie erzählt und schreibt, und dabei gerät ihr Leben aus der Bahn, und in ihr Schreiben wächst eine andere Erzählstimme, die von Owen. Nun ist er es, der sein Leben Revue passieren lässt, komisch und melancholisch, auch er wird verfolgt von einer geisterhaften Erscheinung, einer jungen Frau ... Das eine Leben erscheint im anderen wie in einem Zerrspiegel, und doch ist es ein Fluss, eine Stimme, die von Liebe und Verlust erzählt und erkundet, wer wir sind. Sprachmächtig und von einer schwebenden Leichtigkeit ist dieses Debüt, klug, witzig und voller literarischer Anspielungen. Wer den Sound von Valeria Luiselli einmal im Ohr hat, wird schwer davon loskommen. Valeria Luiselli, geboren 1983 in Mexiko City, schreibt für Magazine und Zeitungen wie Letras Libres und die New York Times. Sie hat für das New York City Ballet Libretti und den Essay-Band "Papeles falsos" geschrieben, der von der Kritik hoch gelobt wurde. Sie arbeitet als Lektorin, Journalistin und Dozentin und lebt in Mexico City und New York."
  • "Shifting between two distinctive voices, this novel is alternately narrated by a modern-day woman living in Mexico and by poet Gilberto Owen while on the verge of death. While the woman recalls her youthful years as an editor in New York City, haunted by Owen's ghost as she rode the subway, Owen recalls his own youth during the Harlem Renaissance of the late 1920s, when he belonged to literary circles along with writers such as Louis Zukofsky and Federico Garcia Lorca. --from publisher's 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."@en
  • "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."

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Erzählende Literatur"

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  • "De gewichtlozen : roman"
  • "Volti nella folla"
  • "Volti nella folla"@it
  • "Faces in the Crowd"@en
  • "Des êtres sans gravité : roman"
  • "Die Schwerelosen"
  • "˜Dieœ Schwerelosen Roman"
  • "Los ingravidos"
  • "Los ingrávidos"@es
  • "Los ingrávidos"
  • "Faces in the crowd"
  • "Faces in the crowd"@en
  • "Die Schwerelosen Roman"

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