About the Author\nLina Meruane is the award-winning Chilean author of Seeing Red. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a DAAD Writer in Residence in Berlin. She teaches at New York University.\nAn electrifying novel about illness, displacement, and what holds us together, by the author of Seeing Red\nElla is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the “country of the present” but she is from the “country of the past,” a place burdened in her memory by both personal and political tragedies. Her partner, El, is a forensic scientist who analyzes the bones of victims of state violence and is recovering from an explosion at a work site that almost killed him. Consumed by writer’s block, Ella finds herself wishing that she would become ill, which would provide time for writing and perhaps an excuse for her lack of progress. Then she begins to experience mysterious symptoms that doctors find undiagnosable.\nAs Ella’s anxiety grows, the past begins to exert a strong gravitational pull, and other members of her family come into focus: the widowed Father, the Stepmother, the Twins, and the Firstborn. Each of them has their own experience of illness and violence, and eventually the systems that both hold them together and atomize them are exposed.\nLina Meruane’s Nervous System is an extraordinary clinical biography of a family, full of affection and resentment, dark humor and buried secrets, in which illness describes the traumas that can be visited not just upon the body, but on families and on the history of the countries―present and past―that we live in.

Nervous System: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Meruane, Lina

United States

Graywolf Press

An Entropy Magazine "Best of 2016: Fiction Books" selectionIncluded in World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translations of 2016"A Foreword Reviews Reviewers' Choice Selection for "14 Favorites of 2016""A penetrating autobiographical novel, and for English-language readers this work serves as a stunning introduction to a remarkable author." — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"This is not a fictionalized memoir of transformation and recovery, but a book that burns in your hands, something sharp and terrifying that bites back." — Anna Zalokostas, Full Stop"A novel of genius and disturbing intelligence." — Enrique Vila-Matas, author of The Illogic of KasselThis powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships.Lina Meruane (b. 1970), considered the best woman author of Chile today, has won numerous prestigious international prizes, and lives in New York, where she teaches at NYU.

Seeing Red

Romance

Contemporary

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An Entropy Magazine "Best of 2016: Fiction Books" selection
Included in World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translations of 2016"
A Foreword Reviews Reviewers' Choice Selection for "14 Favorites of 2016"
"A penetrating autobiographical novel, and for English-language readers this work serves as a stunning introduction to a remarkable author." — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"This is not a fictionalized memoir of transformation and recovery, but a book that burns in your hands, something sharp and terrifying that bites back." — Anna Zalokostas, Full Stop
"A novel of genius and disturbing intelligence." — Enrique Vila-Matas, author of The Illogic of Kassel
This powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships.
Lina Meruane (b. 1970), considered the best woman author of Chile today, has won numerous prestigious international prizes, and lives in New York, where she teaches at NYU.

Deep Vellum Publishing

Sangre en el ojo

CABALLO DE TROYA

Volverse Palestina (Mapa de las lenguas)

Random House]

Mezcla de memorias y ficción, Sangre en el ojo nos adentra en la mente de una escritora chilena que acaba de perder la vista en un país que no es el suyo. Esta es la historia de una ceguera de recuperación incierta vivida entre Nueva York y Santiago de Chile, pero también la crónica de una relación amorosa que pone en entredicho, ante esta situación límite, la incondicionalidad del amor.«Sangre en el ojo es la realización triunfal de una maravillosa visión artística, una novela tan negra y amarga y sangrienta (y hermosa) como su metáfora central. Es una novela difícil de describir. Pero sabes que es grandiosa cuando la lees.» The Nation«Una novela de genio y de perturbadora inteligencia.» Enrique Vila-Matas«Nueva York y su ciudad natal, Santiago, son descritos en una prosa que combina las sensaciones y los recuerdos, la furia y el miedo. La historia revela sus verdades a través de la descripción de lo inmediato: viscoso, repulsivo, y hermoso.» The New Yorker«Lina Meruane, cuya prosa se resiste a los usos heredados, es una escritora inteligente, autocrítica, que sabe adelantarse a objeciones [...]. Me quito el sombrero ante ella.» Marta Sanz ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An Entropy Magazine "Best of 2016: Fiction Books" selection Included in World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translations of 2016" A Foreword Reviews Reviewers' Choice Selection for "14 Favorites of 2016" "A penetrating autobiographical novel, and for English-language readers this work serves as a stunning introduction to a remarkable author." — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "This is not a fictionalized memoir of transformation and recovery, but a book that burns in your hands, something sharp and terrifying that bites back." — Anna Zalokostas, Full Stop "A novel of genius and disturbing intelligence." — Enrique Vila-Matas, author of The Illogic of Kassel This powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Lina Meruane (b. 1970), considered the best woman author of Chile today, has won numerous prestigious international prizes, and lives in New York, where she teaches at NYU.

Sangre en el ojo / Seeing Red (Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Literatura Random House

Rudo e impío, y cargado de humor, Contra los hijos cuestiona los discursos culturales que promueven la preeminencia del hijo y lo llevan a ocupar un lugar despótico en el siglo XXI. Versión revisada y ampliada del publicado en 2014, este ensayo es una provocadora advertencia contra el retorno de un modelo conservador que pretende devolver a las mujeres al encierro doméstico. Un ángel maléfico recorre impune nuestras conciencias: es el mensajero de la procreación. En esta diatriba Lina Meruane examina el retorno de este «ángel» que, amparado en la retórica ecologista, hace imperiosos llamados a la prolongación de la lactancia, la crianza intensiva y una infinita lista de prescripciones. De su polémico análisis sobre uno de los temas más determinantes y peor discutidos de nuestro tiempo se derivan observaciones sobre el estatuto de la pareja contemporánea, la discriminación laboral de las mujeres y los actuales sistemas educativos.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONUnruly, irreverent, and full of humor, Against the Kids questions the cultural speech that promotes the superiority of kids and one that has taken them to occupy an authoritative place in the 21st century. Revised and expanded from its first publication in 2014, this essay is a provocative warning against the return of a conservative model that aims to return women to domestic confinement.In this critique, Lina Meruane examines the return of an evil "angel" who, protected by ecological rhetoric, is calling for a longer breastfeeding time by mothers, a more intensive upbringing, and an infinite list of advices which only takes us back in time. From her controversial analysis on one of the most influential and worst-discussed issues of our time, observations arise about the status of contemporary couples, employment discrimination of women, and the current educational systems.

Contra los hijos / Against the Kids (Spanish Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

La escritora chilena consolida su prestigiosa carrera literaria con una novela sobre las redes que se establecen entre el cuerpo, la enfermedad y los lazos familiares. Esta es la historia de una familia amarrada por una trama obsesiva, entre la precariedad del cuerpo, sus males incesantes y la inminencia de la pérdida. En esta particular biografía clínica de todo un clan, cada miembro va eludiendo los embates de la vida con ansiedad, con afecto, con resentimiento y violencia,con culpa, con imaginación, con chispazos de humor negro. Y con malentendidos que hacen saltar los circuitos del nerviososistema familiar. El pasado y el presente orbitan por estas páginas narradas desde la perspectiva de una protagonista que, radicada en el extranjero, mantiene un equívoco contacto consu familia mientras intenta escribir una tesis astronómica y va internándose por agujeros negros cada vez más profundos. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Chilean author Lina Meruane establishes her prestigious literary career with a novel about the links and commonalities between the body, a disease, and family ties. &nbsp; This is the story of a family tied up with an obsessive plot between the body's instability, its persistent illnesses, and the imminence of loss. &nbsp; In this clinical biography of an entire clan, each member avoids life's devastations with anxiety, affection, with resentment and violence, guilt, imagination, and with sparks of dark humor; and with many misunderstandings that jump-start the family's nervous system. &nbsp; The past and the present circle around these pages from the protagonist's point of view, one who lives abroad and keeps a long-distance contact with her family while she tries to write a complex thesis.

Sistema nervioso / A Nervous System (Spanish Edition)

Zona ciega

Essays & Correspondence

Palestina en pedazos / Palestine in Pieces (Spanish Edition)

History

Middle East

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