Book by Parra Eduardo Antonio
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"It's always extremely difficult to write about the limits of human suffering without descending into voyeurism. But not for Eduardo Parra. From preop prostitutes robbed of their sex change money to loving homeless couples on the doorstep of death, Parra explores the fate of modern Mexico's lowest strata with the literary imagination of a 19th-century Russian novelist and an ethnographer's eye for detail. Simultaneously horrified and yet oddly hopeful, No Man's Land is a stunning introduction to one of Latin America's best new writers." -- Joel Schalit, author of Jerusalem Calling
In the no-man's-land of Mexico's far north-harsh desert landscapes, bruising border towns, urban wastelands and fantastical rural villages-migrants, campesinos and travelers find themselves lost between reality and delirium, tragedy and exaltation. Ten stories with an unflinching gaze onto the fragility and brutality of life: a tabloid journalist tracks a pair of homeless lovers; a blackout extinguishes the lights of Monterrey, unleashing anxieties and criminal tendencies; a visiting teacher in a remote village witnesses a brutal incident of vigilante justice; a desperate young boy crosses the border in search of a father lost to the North. Eduardo Antonio Parra (Leon, Guanajuato, 1965) is the author of two collections of stories and -winner of Mexico's National Prize for the Short Story.
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