Carmen Boullosa

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1) The book of Eve

Author

Boullosa, Carmen

Pub. Date

2023.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam's rib, nor was she expelled for taking the apple from the serpent; the story of Abel and Cain isn't true, neither are those of the Flood and the Tower of Babel . . . In brilliant prose, Carmen...

2) Heavens on earth

Author

Boullosa, Carmen

Pub. Date

2017.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"Three narrators from different historical eras are each engaged in preserving history in Carmen Boullosa's Heavens on Earth. As her narrators sense and interact with each other over time and space, Boullosa challenges the primacy of recorded history and asserts literature and language's power to transcend the barriers of time and space in vivid, urgent prose"--Publisher's website.

3) Treinta años

Author

Boullosa, Carmen

Pub. Date

1999.

Edition

1. edición en Alfaguara.

Language

Español

4) The book of Anna: (Karenina's novel)

Author

Boullosa, Carmen

Pub. Date

2020.

Edition

First English-language edition.

Language

English

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"Russia, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: in the almost-living portrait the Tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts she wrote just before her death, one of which opens a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairytale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapón, the charismatic leader of the proletariat,...