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977443América del Nortehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/america-del-norte/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/698774/717f50bc-baae-4922-bd57-bd62ab503fa3.jpg?v=638434833071870000202246MXNSoho PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Moving between New York City, Mexico City, and Iowa City, a young member of the Mexican elite sees his life splinter in a centuries-spanning debut that blends the Latin American traditions of Roberto Bolaño and Fernanda Melchor with the autofiction of US writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole.</strong></p><p>Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowas MFA program.</p><p>But Sebastiáns life is shaken by the Trump administrations restrictions on immigrants, his mothers terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship, and his fathers forced resignation at the hands of Mexicos new president. As he struggles through the Trump and López Obrador years, Sebastián must confront his fathers role in the Mexican drug war and navigate his whiteness in Mexican contexts even as he is often perceived as a person of color in the US. As he does so, the novel moves through centuries of Mexican literary history, from the 17th century letters of a peevishly polymathic Spanish colonizer to the contemporary packaging of Mexican writers for a US audience.</p><p>Split between the US and Mexico, this stunning debut explores whiteness, power, immigration, and the history of Mexican literature, to wrestle with the contradictory relationship between two countries bound by geography and torn apart by politics.</p>...970595América del Norte202246https://www.gandhi.com.mx/america-del-norte/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/698774/717f50bc-baae-4922-bd57-bd62ab503fa3.jpg?v=638434833071870000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781641295659_W3siaWQiOiJlNTVkN2E3OC0xMTVlLTRhYTQtYjdjOS05YTMyZmFiZDRmOGEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM2MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjEwMSwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjoyNTksImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI0LTEyLTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9781641295659_<p>A young man from an elite Mexican family travels back and forth between the United States and Mexico in a dizzyingly inventive bildungsroman</p><p>For fans of Hernan Diaz and Teju Cole, this autofiction debut explores whiteness, power, immigration, and the history of Mexican literature, from the 17th century letters of a peevishly polymathic Spanish colonizer to the contemporary packaging of Mexican lit for a US audience</p><p>Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege among the Mexican elite. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowas MFA program.</p><p>But Sebastiáns well-curated bi-national life begins to fall apart, shaken by the Trump administrations increasingly stringent restrictions on immigrants, his mothers terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationships with his American girlfriend, and his fathers humiliation and forced resignation at the hands of Mexicos new president. As he struggles through the Trump and López Obrador years, Sebastián must confront his fathers role in the Mexican drug war, his whiteness in Mexican contexts even as he is often perceived as a person of color in the U.S., his place in a Mexican elite that has ruled the country since 1521, and the contemporary literary cultures he is both scornful of and desperately want to be part of.</p><p>Debut novelist Medina Mora blends the Latin American literary traditions of Roberto Bolaño and Valeria Luiselli with the autofiction of U.S. writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole to wrestle with identity, privilege, history, and the questions: Who is a Mexican writer writing for? How are we to live while knowing that history may interrupt and shatter our lives at any moment?</p>...(*_*)9781641295659_<p><strong>Moving between New York City, Mexico City, and Iowa City, a young member of the Mexican elite sees his life splinter in a centuries-spanning debut that blends the Latin American traditions of Roberto Bolaño and Fernanda Melchor with the autofiction of US writers like Ben Lerner and Teju Cole.</strong></p><p>Sebastián lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowas MFA program.</p><p>But Sebastiáns life is shaken by the Trump administrations restrictions on immigrants, his mothers terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship, and his fathers forced resignation at the hands of Mexicos new president. As he struggles through the Trump and López Obrador years, Sebastián must confront his fathers role in the Mexican drug war and navigate his whiteness in Mexican contexts even as he is often perceived as a person of color in the US. As he does so, the novel moves through centuries of Mexican literary history, from the 17th century letters of a peevishly polymathic Spanish colonizer to the contemporary packaging of Mexican writers for a US audience.</p><p>Split between the US and Mexico, this stunning debut explores whiteness, power, immigration, and the history of Mexican literature, to wrestle with the contradictory relationship between two countries bound by geography and torn apart by politics.</p>...9781641295659_Soho Presslibro_electonico_274e1b26-1ff7-3e0e-b548-b1ba1d72b1b2_9781641295659;9781641295659_9781641295659Nicolás MedinaInglésMéxico2024-05-07T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/randomhousewh-epub-49133065-d273-436d-8636-bfa4de063288.epub2024-05-07T00:00:00+00:00Soho Press