Diego Gerard Morrison

Myth of Pterygium (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Set in a vaguely dystopian, yet also realistic, Mexico Cityendless traffic jams, relentless clouds of pollution, economic hardships, and the ever-present threat of drug cartels, Myth of Pterygium, the debut novella by Diego Gerard Morrison is the story of a struggling poet contending with vision loss, poverty, and what it means to be an arms dealer in Mexico City.

The unnamed narrator of the book, at times referred to as Arthurin part because of the growing similarity of his life with Arthur Rimbaud'sstruggles with the dissonance of leading an artistic life while providing for his family. A failed, penniless poet with a child on the way, he is forced to take a job in his family's weapons dealing enterprise, which he soon discovers is connected to the corrupt Mexican armed forces and drug cartels, who are responsible for the increasing death toll in the country. All the while, the narrator struggles with a growing condition in his right eye, a pterygium, that is slowly taking over his vision, blurring the events of his life, including his wife's complicated pregnancy, extortions by the drug cartels, and his own relationship to his writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Autumn House Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781637680308
• Artikelnr.: 70881864

Autorenporträt

Diego Gerard Morrison is a writer, editor, and translator whose recent work explores themes of Magical Realism and appropriation in the context of the Mexican drug war. He is the author of The Wait (John of the Thing, 2021), an appropriation of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in a setting of Mexican cartel violence and its resulting crisis of forced disappearances, and the novels Myth of Pterygium (Autumn House Press, 2022), winner of the Rising Prize in Fiction, and Pages of Mourning (Two Dollar Radio, 2024). He is the co-founder and editor of diSONARE and lives in Mexico City.