This is not Miami / Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melchor, Fernanda, 1982- author.

Contributor:

Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986- translator.

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; 1558.

New Directions paperbook NDP1558

Standardized Title:

Aquí no es Miami. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)--Fiction.

Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico).

Spanish fiction--Translations into English.

Spanish fiction.

Genre:

Short stories.

short stories.

Short stories

Physical Description:

x, 147 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023.

Summary:

"Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories-spiraling from real events-that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them-and even empathize-despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Lights. Lights in the sky ; The vice belt ; This is not Miami ; Queen, slave, woman ; A jail out of the movies

Fire. Ballad of the burned man ; The house on El Estero

Shadows. Don't mess with my boys ; A good asset ; Insomnia ; Life's not worth a thing ; Veracruz with a zee for zeta.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.

ISBN:

9780811228053

0811228053

OCLC:

1333270853