Faces in the Crowd

Valeria Luiselli

• Other Authors Christina MacSweeney (Translator)
• Title

  Faces in the Crowd

• Date 2014
• ISBN 9781566893541
• Publisher Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
• Description 146 pp; 8.4 in
• Language English (translated from Spanish)
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s, and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city’s subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before, his friendships with Nella Larsen, Louis Zukofsky, and Federico Garcia Lorca, and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss. (Coffee House Press)

• Tags Fiction, Spanish language