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Bilbao–New York–Bilbao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Uribe, Kirmen.
- Series:
- Spatial Species
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bilbao (Spain)--Fiction.
- Bilbao (Spain).
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Novels.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : Coffee House Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "The day he knew he was going to die, our narrator's grandfather took his daughter-in-law to the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, the de facto capital of the Basque region of northern Spain, to show her a painting with ties to their family. Years later, her son Kirmen traces those ties back through the decades, knotting together moments from early twentieth-century art history with the stories of his ancestors' fishing adventures-and tragedies-in the North Atlantic Ocean. Elegant, fluid storytelling is punctuated by scenes from Kirmen's flight, from security line to airport bar to jet cabin, and reflections on the creative writing process. This original and compelling novel earned debut author Kirmen Uribe the prestigious National Prize for Literature in Spain in 2009. Exquisitely translated from Basque to English by Elizabeth Macklin, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao skillfully captures the intersections of many journeys: past and present, physical and artistic, complete and still unfolding. Bilbao-New York-Bilbao is the second book commissioned for the Spatial Species series, edited by Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen. The series investigates the ways we activate space through language. In the tradition of Georges Perec's An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Spatial Species titles are pocket-sized editions, each keenly focused on place. Instead of tourist spots and public squares, we encounter unmarked, noncanonical spaces: edges, alleyways, diasporic traces. Such intimate journeying requires experiments in language and genre, moving travelogue, fiction, or memoir into something closer to eating, drinking, and dreaming"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Youmna Chlala
- 1. Bilbao
- 2. A Coffee at the Airport
- 3. Treasures in Hiding
- 4. 16-Millimetre Short Subjects
- 5. Household Matters
- 6. Two Friends
- 7. Frankfurt
- 8. The Fourteen-Year-Old Boy
- 9. Like a Flying Fish
- 10. Dublin
- 11. The Gravestones in Käsmu
- 12. A Bird in Through the Window
- 13. The Boats That Come Into Port
- 14. Nuuk
- 15. St. Kilda
- 16. A Message On Facebook
- 17. In the Middle of the Atlantic
- 18. The Man From Stornoway
- 19. Montreal
- 20. Boston
- 21. Landing
- 22. Agirre's Roses
- 23. New York City
- Acknowledgments
- Funder Acknowledgments
- The Publisher's Circle of Coffee House Press
- About the Spatial Species Series
- About the Translator.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781566896504
- 1566896509
- OCLC:
- 1330932575
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