“A greatly enjoyable and splendidly well-written suburban farce.” —Yuri Herrera Rodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, Among Strange Victims is a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up. “Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd. . . . like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky’s Underground Man.” —John Powers, Fresh Air “Read this messy, shaggy picaresque for its ample page-by-page pleasures, which include devilishly clever syntax, a charming tendency to digress, and satisfying flashes of Rodrigo and Marcelo getting their act together.” —Publisher’s Weekly “A welcome infusion of vitality into North American literature.” —Bookslut
Inhoudsopgave
The Third Person
Fundamental Considerations on Something
The Shrubs of the Terrestrial Sphere
The Future of Art
Epilogue
Over de auteur
Daniel Saldaña París (born Mexico City, 1984) is an essayist, poet and novelist whose work has been translated into English, French, and Swedish and anthologized, most recently in
Mexico20: New Voices, Old Traditions, published in the UK by Pushkin Press. Among Strange Victims is his first novel to appear in the US. He lives in Montreal.
Christina Mac Sweeney has an MA in literary translation from the University of East Anglia and specializes in Latin American fiction. She has also translated Valeria Luiselli’s novels,
Faces in the Crowd and
The Story of My Teeth, and essay collection,
Sidewalks.
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