Verde Shanghai / Green Shanghai - Paperback
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The story of Marina and her alter ego, Xian, starts with a car crash. While Marina's life is dedicated to taking care of her husband and their home, Xian is enigmatic and free, the embodiment of resistance and of Marina's deepest desires. The border between their realities is Green Shanghai, a caf? where the two coexist and can be revealed. Through news, letters and stories, Marina searches for the many facets of ego and identity that lead her to the secret of her other personality. In these pages, the reader will recognize traces of another book by Cristina Rivera Garza, La guerra no importa, which forms the backdrop for Green Shanghai. The result is a kaleidoscope of meanings and the act of reading that reveals them.
Verde Shanghai / Green Shanghai - Paperback
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$15.95
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by Cristina Rivera Garza (Author)
«Verde Shanghai es una novela que apuesta por la libertad en el fondo y en la forma. -Eduardo Antonio Parra
Un choque automovil?stico da comienzo a la historia de Marina y su alter ego, Xian. La primera tiene una vida dedicada al hogar y a su marido, mientras que Xian es una mujer misteriosa y libre, que encarna la resistencia y los m?s profundos deseos de Marina. Verde Shanghai, m?s que un caf? de chinos, es el umbral donde ambas realidades coexisten y se revelan en libertad. A partir de noticias, cartas y relatos, Marina inicia una b?squeda de las m?ltiples posibilidades del yo y la identidad que la llevar? a descubrir los secretos de su otra personalidad. En estas p?ginas el lector encontrar? las huellas de otra obra de Cristina Rivera Garza, La guerra no importa, que conforma el universo de Verde Shanghai en una suerte de caleidoscopio que, seg?n por donde se le mire, ser? el significado y la lectura que se revele. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Green Shanghai is a novel that advocates freedom in substance and form." -Eduardo Antonio ParraThe story of Marina and her alter ego, Xian, starts with a car crash. While Marina's life is dedicated to taking care of her husband and their home, Xian is enigmatic and free, the embodiment of resistance and of Marina's deepest desires. The border between their realities is Green Shanghai, a caf? where the two coexist and can be revealed. Through news, letters and stories, Marina searches for the many facets of ego and identity that lead her to the secret of her other personality. In these pages, the reader will recognize traces of another book by Cristina Rivera Garza, La guerra no importa, which forms the backdrop for Green Shanghai. The result is a kaleidoscope of meanings and the act of reading that reveals them.
Author Biography
Cristina Rivera Garza es autora, traductora y cr?tica. Sus libros m?s recientes son El invencible verano de Liliana (Random House, 2021; Premio Pulitzer 2024, Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2021, publicado en ingl?s en 2023 y finalista del National Book Award en la categor?a de no ficci?n), New and Selected Stories (2022), Dolerse. Textos desde un pa?s herido (2011, traducido al ingl?s en 2020 por Sarah Booker y finalista del NBCC Award) y su poes?a completa, con el t?tulo Me llamo cuerpo que no est? (Lumen, 2024). En 2020 obtuvo la beca MacArthur. Actualmente es profesora distinguida M. D. Anderson en la Universidad de Houston. Adem?s de los mencionados, Rivera Garza ha recibido los premios Iberoamericano de Letras Jos? Donoso, Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz (en dos ocasiones), Anna Seghers, Shirley Jackson y Roger Callois.
Number of Pages: 296
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: March 18, 2025