Way far away / Evelio Rosero ; translated from the Spanish by Victor Meadowcroft & Anne McLean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosero, Evelio, 1958- author.

Contributor:

Meadowcroft, Victor, translator.

McLean, Anne, 1962- translator.

Standardized Title:

En el lejero. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Grandfathers--Fiction.

Grandfathers.

Granddaughters--Fiction.

Granddaughters.

Missing children--Fiction.

Missing children.

Grandparent and child--Fiction.

Grandparent and child.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

82 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2024]

Summary:

"Way Far Away is the Colombian master Evelio Rosero's ninth novel and has been billed by his Spanish publisher as "one of the most important Colombian works of fiction written in the past two decades." In search of his missing granddaughter Rosaura, an old man named Jeremías Andrade arrives in a town strewn with dead mice and overflowing with mist and fog. The owner of a rotten hotel and the dwarf who always accompanies her; children who play with sinister soccer balls and observe life from the ruined rooftops; an albino named Bonifacio who appears and disappears like a ghost; the cart driver whose only task is to pick up the mice piling up night after night; the charitable nuns in a nearby convent - these are the characters that converge in a vigil turned nightmare. Jeremías's wanderings reveal a haunting truth, and a possibility of reunion in a place where all is lost, a forever-gaping abyss"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"A New Directions Paperbook Original"-- title page.

ISBN:

9780811238076

0811238075

OCLC:

1390186789