Brickmakers
Almada, Selva, 1973-2021
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Pájaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, two young men, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just a little after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight - the culmination of a rivalry that has pitted them against one another since childhood. The present in 'Brickmakers' is a state of impending death, at moments marked by oneiric visions: Marciano is visited by the ghost of his father, who was murdered when he was a teenager, a father he had sworn to avenge, in a promise he could not keep. Pájaro is also visited, in a recurring nightmare, by his abusive father who disappeared years earlier.
Main title:
Brickmakers / Selva Almada ; translated by Annie McDermott.
Author:
Almada, Selva, 1973-, authorMcDermott, Annie, translator
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2021.
Collation:
140 pages
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781913867065 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
2255731
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