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The Abyss

The Abyss

The Abyss
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by Fernando Vallejo; Yvette Siegert (Translator)

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  • Title The Abyss
  • Author Fernando Vallejo; Yvette Siegert (Translator)
  • Binding Papeback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication date
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6398695528
  • ISBN 9780811238519 / 0811238512
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.26 x 0.5 in (20.35 x 13.36 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Death, Gay men
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2024004625
  • Dewey Decimal Code 863.64
  • Quantity available 1

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

Winner of the Rmulo Gallego Prize, The Abyss is a caustic masterwork of incredible power and force, an unforgettable autobiographical work of queer fiction. The novel tells about the demise of a crumbling house in Medelln, Colombia. Fernando, a writer, visits his brother Daro, who is dying of AIDS. Recounting their wild philandering and trying to come to terms with his beloved brother's inevitable death, Fernando rants against the political forces that cause so much suffering. Vallejo is the heir to Cline, Thomas Paine, and Machado de Assis. He hurls vitriolic, savagely funny insults at his country ("I wipe my ass with the new Constitution of Colombia") and at his mother ("the Crazy Bitch") who has given birth to him and his many siblings. Within this firestorm of pain, Fernando manages to get across much beauty and truth: that all love is painful and washed in pure sorrow. He loves his sick brother and the family's Santa Anita farm (the lost paradise of his childhood where azaleas bloomed); and he even loves his country, now torn to shreds. Always, in this savage masterpiece about loss--as if in the eye of Vallejo's hurricane of talent--we are in the curiously comforting workings of memory and of the writing process itself, as, recollecting time, it offers immortality.

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