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Pages of Mourning is a stunning achievement, a pioneering and inventive novel that confronts family history, creativity, Magical Realism, and the impact of violence from Mexico's drug war, by a magnificent new talent in Diego Gerard Morrison. It's 2017 and the crisis of forced disappearances has reached a tipping point after 43 docent students disappeared and are feared dead. Aureliano Más the Second is a fledgling writer at a lucrative fellowship in Mexico City chaired by his aunt, Rose. When Aureliano was very young, his mother left without reason or trace. Aureliano is attempting to write a novel that mirrors his mother's unexplained disappearance while shattering Magical Realism as a genre in the process. It doesn't help though, that he's named after the protagonist of a touchstone of the Magical Realist canon, and raised in the mythical town of Comala. Aureliano searches for insight and closure from his father and from Rose, who grappled...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18100680
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Year:
2024
Publisher:
Two Dollar Radio
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781953387417
ISBN:
9781953387400, 9781953387417

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