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I Shall Live in the Night
A caramel pork, please. Behind food truck 7, a deafening swarm of cars leaving the city center. The road. On the other side, a merry-go-round, all lit up. Moving, flickering, spinning in silence. Two children on a helicopter. Waving to a woman standing with her back to me. Her body provocatively dressed, her hand gripping a ribbon, at the end of the ribbon a red balloon, ready to burst. She seems to be watching the marina. I’ll have to step back for a better look. That meat smells good. To the left.
‘Nancy’ by Bruno Lloret (translated by Ellen Jones)
Fiction – paperback; Giramondo; 144 pages; 2020. Translated from the Spanish by Ellen Jones. It’s widely acknowledged that the letter X holds a special place in Elon Musk’s heart (assuming he has one). There’s SpaceX, Tesla’s Model X and the social media channel X (formerly known as Twitter). He even has a child named X AE A-XII, known as “X” for short. The letter X is also popular with Chilean author Bruno Lloret if his debut novel, Nancy, is anything to go by.
XX Nancy XX
I haven’t consciously sought them out, but I’ve read a number of books that mess around with the way text looks on the page, use a lot of white space, or use images and text in interesting ways. I like this! (Thinking of the creative use of images, I might read W.G. Sebald’s Emigrants soon to prepare for this event with Elisa Gabbert. I should keep a good thing going.
6 Latin American Novels That Changed How We Think of Fiction
Bruno Lloret’s debut novel Nancy (Two Lines Press, April 2021) tells of the narrator’s girlhood in the dry, dying landscapes of northern Chile. Its style swings between delicate prose poetry and the refreshing bluntness of the Old Testament. It is also visually striking: the prose is interspersed with thick black crosses that dictate the pace of reading, forcing us to slow down and speed up at different moments.
NANCY | Kirkus Reviews
by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 9, 2021 The miseries of the Depression and Dust Bowl years shape the destiny of a Texas family. “Hope is a coin I carry: an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love.
Nancy | Center for the Art of Translation | Two Lines Press
Two Lines Press Additional Information ISBN: 9781949641127 Pages: 156 Size: 5"x8" Publication Date: April 13, 2021 Distributed By: Publishers Group West by Bruno Lloret Translated from Spanish by Ellen Jones $19.95 “This is a gorgeous novel from a writer unafraid to consider the darkness…beyond rewarding.
My Name’s Nancy - Words Without Borders
A girl of seventeen agrees to marry a gringo on their first date. Nothing in this impulsive start to their marriage hints at the coming misfortunes that will tear them from each other and themselves. Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. Hosea, 4:11 He said: I know you. You used to live in Ch, near the big port—isn’t your name Carla?
My Name’s Nancy
A girl of seventeen agrees to marry a gringo on their first date. Nothing in this impulsive start to their marriage hints at the coming misfortunes that will tear them from each other and themselves. Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. Hosea, 4:11 He said: I know you. You used to live in Ch, near the big port—isn’t your name Carla?
My Name's Nancy by Bruno Lloret
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. Hosea, 4:11 He said: I know you. You used to live in Ch, near the big port—isn’t your name Carla?
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