Alvaro Enrigue

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Perpendicular LivesPaperback, 23 January 2024

Perpendicular Lives
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Part of Series
Mexican Literature
Print Length
120 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Date Published
23 Jan 2024
ISBN-10
1628975148
ISBN-13
9781628975147

Description

Born under strange circumstances to a high-society teenager and a pentagenarian
entrepreneur, Jerónimo Rodriguez Loera is off to an inauspicious start--then things get worse.
Through an assemblage of records, letters, and firsthand testimony of Jerónimo's past lives,
Álvaro Enrigue creates a rich, observant, and dryly humorous account of class and clashing in
Mexican society.

Perpendicular Lives opens in 1930s Guadalajara, but as Jerónimo struggles toward maturity in a
family plagued with infidelities, vanities, and favoritism, the story delves into Jerónimo's
previous lives as, among others, the Mongolian widow of a cloth merchant and a monkhunter
with a penchant for gunslinging and public defecation. Under the breakdown of his ostensible
parents' marriage, political turmoil, and the hypocrisy of New World gentry, Jerónimo must
fight for his place in his family--and the world.

Named as one of the Bogotá39 and recipient of the Joaquín Moritz Prize, Álvaro Enrigue is one
of the foremost voices in Latin American literature. In Perpendicular Lives, Enrigue's historical
genius and mastery of myriad genres create an unconventional, unforgettable narrative that
evokes the wry humor of Twain and the formal freedom of Joyce. The result is a mind-bending and absurdist bildungsroman that explores the meaning of the ties that bind us across class,

continents, and time.

Product Details

Author:
Alvaro Enrigue
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
23 January 2024
Genre:
Mexican
ISBN-10:
1628975148
ISBN-13:
9781628975147
Language:
English
Pages:
120

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