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Tormented by memories of the Guatemalan civil war and the violent killing of a young Mayan woman, a man drives the streets of Los Angeles at night while struggling to reconcile his role in her death and the United States' seeming complicity in the horrors of the conflict. 10,000 first printing.
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Micheline Aharonian Marcom was born in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1968 to an American father and an Armenian-Lebanese mother. She grew up in Los Angeles, and now lives in northern California, where she teaches creative writing at Mills College.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom teaches creative writing at Mills College.
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Draining the Sea
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Draining the Sea
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DRAINING THE SEA a Novel
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing. 335pp. Hardback with DJ, VG, "sifts through the incongruities of history and memory, unfurling inside the mind of a man who spends his days driving the streets of Los Angeles, racked by visions of the Guatemalan Civil War and, in particular, of Marta, a beautiful young prostitute who died violently in ita tragedy in which he himself may have played a role", Seller Inventory # w130615064
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DRAINING THE SEA
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Marcom's acclaimed previous novels, THREE APPLES FELL FROM HEAVEN (2001) and THE DAYDREAMING BOY (2004), explored the reverberations of the Armenian genocide in the blurred memories and fantasies of her protagonists. Again emphasizing the persistence of atrocity, her latest novel explores the psyche of a man haunted by a young Mayan girl who was brutally killed in the Guatemalan civil war. Although our protagonist knew some sort of love with the innocent Marta, and his mind continues to revisit real or imagined encounters, his apparent complicity in her horrifying torture and murder stains his memories with a sad longing that may or may not properly be called guilt. The feeling is intensified by the contrast between our protagonist's dead and solitary life of freeways, television, and sanitized food in Los Angeles and the vibrant, if simple, patterns of life in Guatemala. We learn that our protagonist's mother was scarred by the Armenian genocide. Although her unsubtle condemnation of American actions in Latin America makes this work somewhat more political than her previous ones, Marcom's unique proficiency in describing souls infected by the viral contagion of violence is again on full display. {Brendan Driscoll, Booklist} As new, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L61. Seller Inventory # 18959
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