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This is not Miami / Fernanda Melchor ; translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes.

Melchor, Fernanda, 1982- (author.). Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986- (translator.). Melchor, Fernanda, 1982- Translation of : Aquí no es Miami. English. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories -- spiraling from real events -- that blend together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits, into their desires and circumstances, forcing us to understand them -- and even empathize -- despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season and Paradais, Fernanda Melchor's masterful stories show how the violent and shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780811228053
ISBN: 0811228053
Physical Description: x, 147 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York, New York : New Directions Books, 2023.
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published by Penguin Random House Mexico as Aquí no es Miami in 2013... First published by New Directions in 2023 as NDP1558"--title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:	Lights in the sky -- The vice belt -- This is not Miami -- Queen, slave, woman -- A jail out of the movies -- Ballad of the burned man -- The house on El Estero -- Don't mess with my boys -- A good asset -- Insomnia -- Life's not worth a thing -- Veracruz with a Zee for Zeta.
Original Version Note:	Originally published: Aquí no es Miami. Mexico : Penguin Random House, 2013.
Language Note:	In English, Translated from the Spanish.