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Bezig met laden... Maria, Maria: & Other Storiesdoor Marytza K. Rubio
Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I absolutely loved some of the stories here: Brujería for Beginners, Carlos Across Space and Time, Tijuca, Tunnels. These stories are all a bit weird, a touch sci-fi, and several involve time/space travel/ideas. Different, original. I love stuff like this. The longest story in the book is the title story Maria, Maria and is about 1/3 of the book. It started OK, but one of my pet peeves is talking animals/creatures. People turning into animals, animals talking like people, etc etc. I don't read fantasy because I don't like it. This story goes there, and it took me a week to push through it to finish the book. Call if fantasy, call it magical realism, whatever. I don't do talking animals and was not expecting to find them here. If you do, you might enjoy this book a lot. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Prijzen
"For fans of Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Lesley Nneka Arimah, a darkly funny and imaginative debut conjuring tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits. "The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria." From former PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow Marytza K. Rubio comes Maria, Maria, an inimitable collection set across the tropics and megacities of the Americas. Readers will be enticed and infuriated as characters negotiate with nature to cast their desired ends-such as the enigmatic community college professor in "Brujeria for Beginners'; the disturbingly faithful widow in "Tijuca"; and the lonely little girl in "Burial," who awakens a sabretooth tiger. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, the book bubbles over into a novella of fantastical proportions-a "tropigoth" family drama set in a reimagined California micro-rainforest about the legacies of three Marias, possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as a bold voice new voice in contemporary short fiction"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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