American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cardenas Paperback Book

Description: American Abductions by Mauro Javier Cardenas "Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Câardenas novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century."--Provided by publisher. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Crdenas novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century.American Abductions opens in a near-future United States whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and algorithms has enabled the mass incarceration and deportation of Latin Americans-regardless of citizenship. After their father is abducted by immigration officials before their eyes and deported to Colombia, Ada and her sister Eva are left to contend with a United States as all-seeing as it is hostile. Now adults, Ada remains in San Francisco while Eva has joined their father in Colombia, tending him in his ailing health. When his condition worsens, Eva asks Ada to come see them: a nearly impossible feat, given the United States restrictions on Latin Americans movements. Ada, terribly alone, must come to terms with the violence of American society and the grief of lost community. Exploring the role of technology, mass society, and American expectations on how Latin American deportees should tell their stories, the novel delves into the ties, memories, and lines of code binding communities together.Mauro Javier Crdenas has been lauded as one of the most promising Latin American authors, and in American Abductions, his deconstruction of American society and the surveillance state proves his generation-defining acuity and storytelling. The books polyphony of mysticism, technology, and philosophy calls to mind the perceptive dystopian visions of Philip K. Dick and the visionary stylistic fluidity of Samuel Delany. The result is a sharp and metaphysical narrative, a masterwork examining the place of Latin Americans in a United States that is always changing. Author Biography Mauro Javier Crdenas grew up in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University. Hes the author of Aphasia (FSG, 2020) and The Revolutionaries Try Again (Coffee House Press, 2016). In 2016 he received a Joseph Henry Jackson Award and in 2017 the Hay Festival included him in Bogota 39, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists. Review A Millions Most-Anticipated Book of 2024"Mauro Javier Cárdenas has knocked down the novel as we know it, and built a cathedral out of the debris." —Carlos Fonseca"Cárdenass narrative engines include oneiric séances, unheralded victims rebaptized as 20th-century Surrealists, a plausible robot named Roberto Bolaño, and lives fractured by trauma, death or computer algorithms …Cárdenas reminds us that Surrealism also had a social ethos, to destabilize ruinous order through art. Similarly, this is what American Abductions offers: the art-polemic as a defiant, befitting medium for our dire times." —Gina Apostol, The New York Times"One of the most affecting and inventive English-language novels in recent memory, a playful and experimental narrative about narratives in which the question of who is telling the story — and how they go about doing it — proves the real subject." —Robert Rubsam, The Washington Post"Cárdenas writes with both playfulness and erudition. The long, looping sentences brim with references to writers and surrealists, as well as with rage and dark humor. His concern is less with individual stories, and more with the effects of fear and trauma on an entire population. A dark, original work." —Kirkus (starred review)"Mauro Javier Cárdenas can maunder with the best. The syntax in his first novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again (2016), shuttled between telegraphic and garrulous, but his next, Aphasia (2021), sank into pillowy heaps of rhetoric like those in the new American Abductions. … Yet, while his novels to date dazzle with verbal pyrotechnics, they also set off deeper disturbances." —John Domini, The Brooklyn Rail"Plagued by data harvesting, constant surveillance, mass deportation, and incarceration, the society at the heart of Cárdenass new novel is less speculative dystopia than realist reflection. Channeling Philp K. Dick and Samuel Delany, Cárdenas imagines a society where Latin Americans are systematically expunged. … American Abductions tells a new kind of immigrant story, suffused with mysticism and philosophical rigor." —Daniella Fishman, The Millions Long Description After her father is abducted by immigration officials before her eyes and deported to Colombia,Ada and her sister are left in an America as all-seeing as it is hostile; torrential and dreamlike,Mauro Javier C Details ISBN1628975180 Author Mauro Javier Cardenas Format Paperback Pages 350 ISBN-13 9781628975185 Imprint Dalkey Archive Press Place of Publication Normal, IL Country of Publication United States ISBN-10 1628975180 Year 2024 NZ Release Date 2024-03-14 UK Release Date 2024-03-14 Publisher Dalkey Archive Press Audience General AU Release Date 2024-08-13 Publication Date 2024-06-20 US Release Date 2024-06-20 DEWEY 813.6 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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