Max Besora

The Fake Muse (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Faye Lethem, Mara

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

•PREVIOUS SUCCESS: The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpi, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia received the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award.

•BELOVED BY BOOKSELLERS: Jeremy Garber (Powell's) was one of many booksellers wowed by Besora's first novel to appear in English. A master of playful postmodernism, his works appeal to adventurous connoisseurs of books published by the likes of New Directions and Dalkey Archive.

•POTENTIAL TOUR: Sponsored by Spain-USA Foundation as part of winning the inaugural translation prize, Besora and Lethem will do several events across the U.S. to promote both of his novels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Letter
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781960385345
• Artikelnr.: 73069265

Autorenporträt

Max Besora has written five novels: Volcano (2011, rewritten and republished 2021), The Marvelous Technique (2014), The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpi, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia (2017), The Fake Muse (2020), and His Master's Voice (2022) and one fictional essay on urban music, Trapology (2018).

Mara Faye Lethem has translated novels by Jaume Cabré, David Trueba, Albert Sánchez Piñol, Javier Calvo, Patricio Pron, Marc Pastor and Toni Sala, among others, and shorter fiction by such authors as Juan Marsé, Rodrigo Fresán, Pola Oloixarac, Teresa Colom and Alba Dedeu. Her translation of The Whispering City, by Sara Moliner, recently received an English PEN Award and two of her translations were nominated for the 2016 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She also won the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for her translation of Max Besora's The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpi, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia.