Palestina En Pedazos / Palestine in Pieces - Paperback
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by Lina Meruane (Author)
Un gran cuaderno de reflexiones en el que la autora funde lecturas y recuerdos sobre la tierra que sus ancestros se vieron obligados a abandonar en busca de una nueva vida.
«Una escritora deliberada e inmensamente dotada que entiende cómo el trauma político se conserva para siempre en el cuerpo .
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, The New York Times
"A deliberate and immensely gifted writer that understands how political trauma is preserved forever in the body."--Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, The New York Times
Palestine in Pieces broadens and deepens the reflection that Lina Meruane began in 2012 after a journey to Beit Jala, which would constitute a paradoxical return home in the name of those who could never go back. From such a position, perhaps lacking in authority but politically committed, Meruane wrote the opening chronicle for this volume--"Becoming Palestine"--and continued writing because, as she would later say, "no matter how much you want to write that last line, the grim reality of occupation continues." There was a second part added to those pages--"Becoming Others"--an acute and audacious contemplation on the language of conflict. And a third, never before published--"Faces on My Face"--where Meruane rethinks both individual and collective identities pressed upon visages and languages, as well as the cultural contradictions that bodies carry. The three texts gathered here examine essentialist, exclusive, proscribed, and unstable belongings through a narrative that unites memory's melancholic air with the flexibility of travel writing, critical irony, and the pensive yet daring touch of essays.
Author Biography
Lina Meruane (Santiago de Chile, 1970). Su obra de ficción incluye la colección de relatos Las infantas (1998) y las novelas Póstuma (2000), Cercada (2000), Fruta podrida (2007) y Sangre en el ojo (2012, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz); esta última ha sido traducida al inglés, al francés, al alemán, al portugués y al italiano. Ha recibido los premios literarios Cálamo Otra Mirada (España, 2016) y Anna Seghers (Berlín, 2011), así como becas de la Fundación Guggenheim (2004), National Endowment for the Arts (2010) y DAAD Artists in Berlin (2017). Entre sus libros de no ficción se cuentan el ensayo Viajes virales (2012) y la crónica-ensayo Volverse Palestina (2014), merecedora del Premio del Instituto Chileno Árabe de Cultura en 2015. Actualmente enseña cultura latinoamericana y escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York.
Estimated delivery: June 11 - June 14, 2026
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