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16%OFFLaia Jufresa - Umami: ´Guaranteed to challenge and move you´ - Vogue - 9781780748924 - V9781780748924
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Umami: ´Guaranteed to challenge and move you´ - Vogue

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Description for Umami: ´Guaranteed to challenge and move you´ - Vogue Paperback. For fans of Ali Smith and A.M. Homes comes this captivating debut from Mexico's most exciting rising star Translator(s): Hughes, Sophie. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. .

 

'A wonderfully surprising novel, powered by wit, exuberance and nostalgia.' Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters

A captivating portrait of contemporary Mexico, cut through with dazzling wit and sensitivity 

It started with a drowning.

Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old still coming to terms with the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the rainy, smoggy summer she decides to plant a vegetable garden in the courtyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in ... Read more

Using five voices to tell the singular story of life in an inner city mews, Umami is a quietly devastating novel of missed encounters, missed opportunities, missed people, and those who are left behind. Compassionate, surprising, funny and inventive, it deftly unpicks their stories to offer a darkly comic portrait of contemporary Mexico, as whimsical as it is heart-wrenching.

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Product Details

Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780748924
SKU
V9781780748924
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Laia Jufresa
Laia Jufresa was born in Mexico City. Laia’s work has been featured in several anthologies and magazines such as Letras Libres, Pen Atlas, Words Without Borders and McSweeney's, and she was named one of the most outstanding young writers in Mexico as part of the project Mexico20. In 2015 she was invited by the British Council to be the first ever ... Read more

Reviews for Umami: ´Guaranteed to challenge and move you´ - Vogue
'Ms Jufresa: Where the f
#! did you learn to tell a story so well?'  
Álvaro Enrigue, author of Sudden Death
'A lovely novel about family, friendship and community that is told through multiple points of view from people living in a small development in Mexico City. The range in characters from the recently widowed ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Umami: ´Guaranteed to challenge and move you´ - Vogue


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