Firefly by Sarduy, Severo

Firefly (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935744641)

Vendor: Severo Sarduy
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Firefly by Sarduy, Severo

Firefly

$16.00
Firefly by Sarduy, Severo

Firefly

$16.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
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Firefly is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views the world as a threatening conspiracy. Told in breathless and lyrical prose, the novel is a loving rendition of a long-lost home, a meditation on exile, and an allegory of Cuba's isolation in the world.

Author: Severo Sarduy
ISBN-10: 193574464X
ISBN-13: 9781935744641
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2013
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 6.40h x 5.70w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2013
Library Journal 02/15/2013 pg. 95
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2013
Shelf Awareness 03/19/2013
By Severo Sarduy
By Severo Sarduy
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Severo Sarduy (1937-1993), Cuban poet, fiction writer, playwright, and literary critic, is considered one of the best prose artists of the twentieth century. In 1972, he was awarded the Prix M?dicis for Cobra, one of his six highly acclaimed novels. Sarduy also painted, hosted a radio program, and, as an editor at Editions du Seuil, introduced contemporary Latin American fiction to European readers. Sarduy was a leading intellectual in the early years of the Cuban Revolution.

Mark Fried is the translator of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days, Mirrors, Voices of Time, Upside Down, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Walking Words, and We Say No. He is also the translator of the historical collection Echoes of the Mexican-American War and works by Emilia Ferreiro, Jos? Ignacio L?pez Vigil, Oscar Ugarteche and Rafael Barajas Dur?n.

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