Life Before Dolphins (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781566897730)

Vendor: Kirmen Uribe
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Format: Paperback
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Life Before Dolphins

$18.00

Life Before Dolphins

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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A hybrid and moving novel mixing history, memoir, and fiction that speaks to universal themes of family, immigration, and history.

Awarded a fellowship at the New York Public Library, our narrator, Uribe, reflects on his life as an antimilitarist in the Basque Country, while researching the Hungarian activist and pacifist Rosika Schwimmer. As Uribe uncovers Rosika's purpose in World War I, he struggles to understand his own ambitions as a migrant in a new country. The narrative weaves myth, personal history, and the forgotten story of a stateless feminist into a meditation on crossing borders--geographical, emotional, and historical. Formally bold, the novel blends an unfinished manuscript, a pandemic letter, and even a TikTok video, speaking to a moment when questions of migration, gender equality, and historical memory feel increasingly urgent.

Evocative and genre-blurring, Life Before Dolphins is a celebration of resilience, imagination, and the secret language of those who choose to live softly in a hard world.

Author: Kirmen Uribe
ISBN-10: 1566897734
ISBN-13: 9781566897730
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2027
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
By Kirmen Uribe
By Kirmen Uribe
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Kirmen Uribe is a Basque-born New York-based award-winning writer whose work transcends borders, weaving together personal and collective histories. Through poetry and fiction, he explores themes of identity, migration, and memory. In 2018, he won the NYPL Cullman Center Fellowship. Based in New York City, he teaches Creative Writing at New York University (NYU).

Megan McDowell is a Spanish language literary translator from Kentucky. Her work includes books by Alejandro Zambra, Arturo Fontaine, Lina Meruane, Mariana Enriquez, Álvaro Bisama, and Juan Emar. Her translations have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders, Mandorla, and Vice, among others. She lives in Santiago, Chile.

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