Ramifications - Softcover

Daniel Saldaña París

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1999368479 ISBN 13: 9781999368470

Publisher: Charco Press, 2020

Synopsis

A thirty-two-year old man cant get out of bed or leave his apartment. All he can do is recall his life so far, dissect it, write it, gathering all the memories around what would mark his existence forever: his mothers departure in the summer of 1994, when he was only ten, so that she could join the Zapatista uprising that was shaking up the whole country. Her mysterious escape from one day to the next only worsens with his clumsy fathers secrecy, silence and awkwardness, a man unable to carry the responsibilities for his son and teenage daughter. This worsens with the boys erratic investigations to uncover the reasons for his mothers decision to leave. All he can do is create an anguish-filled parallel world: he will unsuccessfully seek refuge in his origami obsession, or in his sensory deprivation tank in which he locks himself up to see if he can erase his existence. Finally, with the help of Rata, a young delinquent dating his sister, he will undertake a voyage of discovery to the darkest corners of his Mexico City, where he will meet the face of gratuitous cruelty, as well as the selfless kindness of strangers.   In his second novel, Daniel Saldaña París has created a bone chilling, exact portrait of a hypersensitive childhood that must torture and repeat itself in the mind of the protagonist.

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About the Author

Daniel Saldaña París (born Mexico City, 1984) is a poet, essayist and novelist, considered one of the most important in Mexican contemporary literature. His debut novel Among Strange Victims (En medio de extrañas víctimas, 2013) was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award and his follow-up novel Ramifications (El nervio principal, 2018) has brought him even more praise and admiration in Mexico and abroad. He has two poetry collections and his work has been included in several anthologies, including México20: New Voices, Old Traditions (Pushkin Press, 2015), as one of the twenty young Mexican novelists with the most international reach. In 2017, he was chosen as one of the authors of Hay Festival s Bogotá39, a selection of the best Latin American writers under forty. He has been a writer in resident at the MacDowell Colony, Omi International Center for the Arts and The Banff Center. He has lived in Cuernavaca, Mexico City, Madrid and Montreal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Charco Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1999368479
• ISBN 13: 9781999368470
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190