{"product_id":"salt-crystals-paperback-1","title":"Salt Crystals - 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\u003eCristina Bendek\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFive hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy vacationers, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Verónica, returning after living in Mexico City, ready to understand herself and the place she came from.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSan Andrés rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab traders, migrants from the mainland, and the descendants of everyone who came before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Victoria - whose origins on the island go back generations, but whose identity is contested by her accent, her skin colour, her years far away - the sunburnt tourists, sewage blooms, sudden storms, and 'thinking rundowns' where liberation is plotted and dinner served from a giant communal pot, bring her into vivid, intimate contact with the island she thought she knew, her own history, and the possibility for a real future for herself and San Andrés.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCristina Bendek\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Caribbean author. She was born on the island of San Andrés (Colombia) in October 1987. In 2018 her first novel, \u003cem\u003eSalt Crystals, \u003c\/em\u003e won the Elisa Mújica National Novel Prize (Colombia). The novel has been translated into Portuguese (Moinhos, 2021), and Danish (Aurora Boreal, 2020), and now appears in English translation for the first time with Charco Press, which will also launch the novel in Spanish for the North American readership. Some of her work has also been translated into German. . Cristina is also a journalist but spends her time researching Caribbean literature and writing fiction. She lives in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/strong\u003e is a New York-born, Mexico City-based poet and translator. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming from the_ Kenyon Review_, the_ Harvard Review_, \u003cem\u003eTwo Lines\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Offing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWaxwing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTupelo Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eInventory\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2009, she was named a fellow of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA); in 2014, she was awarded a residency at the Banff Literary Translation Centre (BILTC); and in 2017, and she was selected to participate in the feminist translation colloquium A-Fest. Recent book-length translations include \u003cem\u003eLyric Poetry Is Dead\u003c\/em\u003e by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House Press), \u003cem\u003eAnimals at the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e by Gloria Susana Esquivel (University of Texas Press), an_d Cars on Fire _by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 7.75 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 27, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252797784313,"sku":"9781913867331","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VVlkTTdCdlR1dzdvSWp6d0diTXgwQT09_4aa2b769-092f-4caa-8f26-1afac9a5b9e5.webp?v=1768693538","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/salt-crystals-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}