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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Eduardo Halfon, Lisa Dillman (Translator), Daniel Hahn (Translator)Publish date:2018-05-08Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bellevue Literary PressISBN-13:9781942658443ISBN-10:1942658443UPC:9781942658443Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Cultural Heritage, Literary, JewishAward:2018 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC68PPX87E

The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for his roots through tangled childhood memories of a haunting family tragedy

International Latino Book Award Winner * Edward Lewis Wallant Award Winner

In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father's Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salomón. But what, or who, really killed Salomón? As he goes deeper, he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South.

Mourning is a subtle and stirring reflection on the formative and destructive power of family mythology, silence, and loss.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Bellevue Literary PressISBN-13:9781942658443ISBN-10:1942658443UPC:9781942658443Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Cultural Heritage, Literary, JewishAward:2018 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction AwardSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC68PPX87E

Eduardo Halfon is the author of The Polish Boxer, Monastery, Mourning, and Canción. He is the recipient of the Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, Roger Caillois Prize, José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, International Latino Book Award, and Edward Lewis Wallant Award, among other honors. A citizen of Guatemala and Spain, Halfon was born in Guatemala City, attended school in Florida and North Carolina, and has lived in Nebraska, Spain, Paris, and Berlin.


Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

Awards

🏆 2018 Kirkus Prize Finalist - Fiction Award

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