{"product_id":"on-lighthouses-paperback","title":"On Lighthouses - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJazmina Barrera\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristina Macsweeney\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book is a light at the end of the tunnel.\" \u003cem\u003e--The Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFar from home, in the confines of a dim New York apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera offers a tour of her lighthouses--those structures whose message is \"first and foremost, that human beings are here.\"\u003c\/p\u003eStarting with Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline, \u003cem\u003eOn Lighthouses\u003c\/em\u003e artfully examines lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts and those in the works of Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ingmar Bergman, and many others.\u003cp\u003eIn trying to \"collect\" lighthouses by obsessively describing them, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing, collecting, and how, by staring so intently at one thing we are only trying to avoid others. Equal parts personal memoir and literary history, \u003cem\u003eOn Lighthouses\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone--from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful one--concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless, guiding light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJazmina Barrera\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Her book of essays \u003cem\u003eCuerpo extraño\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eForeign Body\u003c\/em\u003e) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013. She has published her work in various print and digital media, such as \u003cem\u003eNexos\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEste País\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDossier\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVice\u003c\/em\u003e, and more. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina MacSweeney\u003c\/b\u003e received the 2016 Valle Inclan prize for her translation of Valeria Luiselli's \u003cem\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAmong Strange Victims\u003c\/em\u003e (Daniel Saldaña París) was a finalist in the 2017 Best Translated Book Award. Among the other authors she has translated are: Elvira Navarro (\u003cem\u003eA Working Woman\u003c\/em\u003e), Verónica Gerber Bicecci (\u003cem\u003eEmpty Set\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003ePalabras migrantes\/Migrant Words\u003c\/em\u003e), and Julián Herbert (\u003cem\u003eTomb Song; The House of the Pain of Others\u003c\/em\u003e). She is currently working on a second novel by Daniel Saldaña París and her translations of short story collection by Elvira Navarro and Julián Herbert will be published in 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7 x 4.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47186403262713,"sku":"9781949641349","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/KzhIaXBSbE9tZkE5ZXhCR1gwMTJxUT09.webp?v=1767838038","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/on-lighthouses-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}