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by Sebastián Martínez Daniell
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Jennifer Croft (Translator)Publish date:2023-02-28Pages:271
Language:EnglishPublisher:Charco PressISBN-13:9781913867416ISBN-10:1913867412UPC:9781913867416Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, Nature & the EnvironmentSize:5.10 x 7.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC1D0F6SVB

Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.

A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpas kneel at the edge, stand, exchange the odd word, waiting for him to move, to make a decision, to descend. In those minutes, the world opens up to Kathmandu, a sun-bleached beach town on another continent, and the pages of Julius Caesar. Mountaineering, colonialism, obligation--in Sebasti?n Mart?nez Daniell's effortless prose each breath is crystalline, and the whole world is visible from here.

Tambi?n disponible en espa?ol. (Also available in Spanish.)

Language:EnglishPublisher:Charco PressISBN-13:9781913867416ISBN-10:1913867412UPC:9781913867416Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Cultural Heritage, Nature & the EnvironmentSize:5.10 x 7.70 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC1D0F6SVB

Sebastián Martínez Daniell was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. He has published three novels, Semana (Week, 2004), Precipitaciones aisladas (Isolated Showers, 2010) and Dos Sherpas (Two Sherpas, 2018). His work has also been included in anthologies such as Buenos Aires / Escala 1:1 (2007), Uno a uno (2008), Hablar de mí (2010) and Golpes . Relatos y memorias de la dictadura (2016). He is one of the co-founders of the independent publisher Entropía and is a literature lecturer at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires.

Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's Flights. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Northwestern University and is a Presidential Professor at the University of Tulsa.


Publisher: Charco Press

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Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Jennifer Croft (Translator)

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