Francisco Goldman

The Interior Circuit (eBook, ePUB)

A Mexico City Chronicle

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Pulitzer Prize-finalist shares an intimate memoir of grieving his lost wife-and confronting the troubled Mexican city where she grew up. Five years after his wife's untimely death, Francisco Goldman decided to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City. The widower and award-winning writer wanted to fully embrace his late wife's childhood home and the city that came to mean so much to them. In The Interior Circuit, Goldman chronicles his personal and political awakening to the nuances of this unique city as he learns to navigate the "circuito interior," its crisscrossing network of highway-like roads. Many regard Mexico's capital-then known as the "DF" or Distrito Federal-as a haven from the social ills that plague the rest of the country. Goldman's account reveals a more complicated truth as he explores the effects of Mexico's raging narco war, the resurgence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (the PRI), and new eruptions of organized crime-related violence. Part travelogue, part memoir, and part political reportage, The Interior Circuit "is so sneakily brilliant it's hard to put into words.... It is also, in the finest sense, a book that creates its own form" ( Los Angeles Times).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780802192639
• Artikelnr.: 49560024

Autorenporträt

Francisco Goldman has published four novels and two books of nonfiction. The Long Night of White Chickenswas awarded the American Academy's Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. His novels have been finalists for several prizes, including, twice, The Pen/Faulkner Prize. The Ordinary Seamanwas a finalist for The International IMPAC Dublin literary award. The Divine Husbandwas a finalist for The Believer Book Award. The Art of Political Murderwon The Index on Censorship T.R. Fyvel Book Award and The WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award. The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle, published in 2013, was named by the LA Times one of tenbest books of the year and received The Blue Metropolis "Premio Azul" 2017. His most recent novel, Say Her Name, won the 2011 Prix Femina Etranger. His books have been published in sixteen languages. Francisco Goldman has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the NY Public Library, and a Berlin Fellow at the American Academy.He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also received a 2017 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Prize, and has just been named a recipient of PENMexico's 2017 Award for Journalistic and Literary Excellence. He has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The Believer,and many other publications.He directs the Aura Estrada Prize (www.auraestradaprize.org). Every year Goldman teaches one semester at Trinity College in Hartford, CT., and then hightails it back to Mexico City.