{"product_id":"people-in-the-room-paperback","title":"People in the Room - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNorah Lange\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Whittle\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation \u003cbr\u003eRunner-up in the 2019 Translators Association First Translation Prize \u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house opposite her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled spinsters contemplating suicide, or as players in an affair with dark and mysterious consequences. Lange's imaginative excesses and almost hallucinatory images make this uncanny exploration of desire, domestic space, voyeurism and female isolation a twentieth-century masterpiece. Too long viewed as Borges's muse, Lange is today recognised in the Spanish-speaking world as a great writer and is here translated into English for the first time, to be read alongside Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Marguerite Duras.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1905 to Norwegian parents in Buenos Aires, \u003cb\u003eNorah Lange\u003c\/b\u003e was a key figure in the Argentinean avant-garde of the early to mid-twentieth century. Though she began her career writing poetry in the ultraísta mode of urban modernism, her first major success came in 1937 with her memoir Notes from Childhood, followed by the companion memoir \u003ci\u003eBefore They Die\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novels \u003ci\u003ePeople in the Room\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Two Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e. She contributed to the magazines \u003ci\u003eProa\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMartín Fierro\u003c\/i\u003e, and was a friend to figures such as Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Federico García Lorca. From her teenage years, when her family home became the site of many literary gatherings, Norah was a mainstay of the Buenos Aires literary scene, and was famous for the flamboyant speeches she gave at parties in celebration of her fellow writers. She traveled widely alone and with her husband, the poet Oliverio Girondo, always returning to Buenos Aires, where she wrote in the house they shared, and where they continued to host legendary literary gatherings. She died in 1972. \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Whittle\u003c\/b\u003e has translated works by Silvia Goldman, Jorge Comensal, and Rafael Toriz, among others. Her translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including \u003ci\u003eMantis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Originally from England and Utah, she has lived in Mexico, Peru, and Chile, and is now based in New York. She is an editor at Cardboard House Press, a bilingual publisher of Spanish and Latin American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 21, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770005946656,"sku":"9781911508229","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ed39034c51a9887c5fb9b7f1687e8686.webp?v=1780362311","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/people-in-the-room-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}