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2005 Award
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No One Will See Me Cry by Cristina Rivera-Garza translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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is a vividly imagined historical novel by one of Mexico's new literary stars.
Joaquin Buitrago, a photographer in the Castaneda Insane Asylum, believes a patient, Matilda Burgos, is a prostitute he knew years earlier. His obsession leads him to explore the clinic's records, and her tragic history. Joaquin and Matilda begin to tell each other fragmented stories about a past they almost shared, and a future in which they do not believe. Set in 1920's Mexico, this novel is at once an overview of one of the most turbulent times in Mexican history, a love story, and a meditation on the ways in which medical and popular language defined insanity. No One Will See Me Cry is a lyrical and startling visitation with the so-called losers of an era as they try to plumb the meaning of their lives. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Cristina Rivera-Garza was born in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, and currently resides in San Diego. She is the author of fiction, poetry, and essays, written in both her mother tongue (Spanish) and her stepmother tongue (English). No One Will See Me Cry received the 1997 Jose Ruben Romero Prize and the 2000 IMPAC-CONARTE-ITESM Prize. |
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