Faces in the Crowd (novel)

Faces in the Crowd is a novel by the Mexican author Valeria Luiselli in 2011 (originally under the title Los ingrávidos).[1] Christina MacSweeney's English translation was published by Coffee House Press in 2014.

Background

The novel chronicles three parallel yet intersecting narrative realities.[2] The first narrative is set in Mexico City and follows a young mother writing a memoir of her bohemian days working as a translator of Mexican poetry in Harlem as her marriage begins to fall apart.

The second narrative is set in Harlem, and follows the misadventures of a young translator who creates a deception while purporting to translate lost poems by the obscure, early 20th-century Mexican poet Gilberto Owen.[3]

The third narrative follows Gilberto Owen, the Mexican poet, and his friend, the Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca living in Philadelphia and New York City in the 1930s.

Reception

The book has received acclaim for its unique reorientation of the invented spaces of language and identity.[4][5][6] It received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.[7]

References
  1. "Faces in the Crowd". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  2. "Smashing Snow Globes: A Writer On Essays, Novels And Translation". NPR.org. All Things Considered (National Public Radio). Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  3. Tobar, Hector. "Valeria Luiselli's 'Faces in the Crowd' seeks poets in a city". latimes.com. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  4. Houser, Megan. "Valeria Luiselli's Sidewalks and Faces in the Crowd". Music & Literature.
  5. Holland, Mina (5 May 2012). "Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli – review". the Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  6. Zuckerman, Jeffrey. "Porous to the World Around Me: The Writing of Valeria Luiselli - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  7. Kellogg, Carolyn (18 April 1015). "The winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes are ..." latimes.com. Retrieved 2018-06-27.


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