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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Amanda Hopkinson, Sophie HughesPublish date:2018-10-30Pages:80
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811227780ISBN-10:811227782UPC:9780811227780Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Hispanic & Latino, Classics, LiterarySize:7.00 x 4.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.15Product ID:SC5K0W1K7S

Set in a Mexican prison in the late 1960s, The Hole follows three inmates as they plot to sneak in drugs under the noses of their ape-like guards. The inmates desperately need to secure their next fix, and hatch a plan that involves convincing one of their mothers to bring the drugs into the prison, inside her person. But everything about their plan is doomed from the beginning, doomed to end in violence...

Unfolding in a single paragraph, The Hole is a verbal torrent, a prison inside a prison, and an ominous parable about how deformed and wretched institutions create even more deformed and wretched individuals.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811227780ISBN-10:811227782UPC:9780811227780Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Hispanic & Latino, Classics, LiterarySize:7.00 x 4.40 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.15Product ID:SC5K0W1K7S
Revueltas, José: - The writer and journalist José Revueltas (1914-1976) was a lifelong political dissident. In 1968, Revueltas spent two and a half years as a prisoner in the infamous Palacio de Lecumberri, a penitentiary near Mexico City. There, in the space of weeks, Revueltas wrote The Hole, using the real prison as the setting for his novella. Revueltas was awarded both prestigious the Premio Nacional de Literatura and the Xavier Villaurrutia Literary Prize.Hopkinson, Amanda: - Amanda Hopkinson is a Professor of Literary Translation at City, University of London and has translated over 40 books from Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She also writes on photography and is the author of History of Photography in Mexico (2019).Hughes, Sophie: - Sophie Hughes has translated such Spanish-language writers as Iván Repila, Laia Jufresa, Rodrigo Hasbún, José Revueltas, Giuseppe Caputo, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Alia Trabucco Zerán.
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Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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