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- Release Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 9781628975185
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-10
1628975180
ISBN-13
9781628975185
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27057273935
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Abductions
Number of Pages
350 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Political
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-934019
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20240823
Reviews
A Millions Most-Anticipated Book of 2024 "Mauro Javier Cárdenas has knocked down the novel as we know it, and built a cathedral out of the debris." --Carlos Fonseca "Cárdenas's narrative engines include oneiric séances, unheralded victims rebaptized as 20th-century Surrealists, a plausible robot named Roberto Bolaño, and lives fractured by trauma, death or computer algorithms... Cárdenas reminds us that Surrealism also had a social ethos, to destabilize ruinous order through art. Similarly, this is what American Abductions offers: the art-polemic as a defiant, befitting medium for our dire times." --Gina Apostol, The New York Times "One of the most affecting and inventive English-language novels in recent memory, a playful and experimental narrative about narratives in which the question of who is telling the story -- and how they go about doing it -- proves the real subject." --Robert Rubsam, The Washington Post "Cárdenas writes with both playfulness and erudition. The long, looping sentences brim with references to writers and surrealists, as well as with rage and dark humor. His concern is less with individual stories, and more with the effects of fear and trauma on an entire population. A dark, original work." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Mauro Javier Cárdenas can maunder with the best. The syntax in his first novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again (2016), shuttled between telegraphic and garrulous, but his next, Aphasia (2021), sank into pillowy heaps of rhetoric like those in the new American Abductions ... Yet, while his novels to date dazzle with verbal pyrotechnics, they also set off deeper disturbances." --John Domini, The Brooklyn Rail "Plagued by data harvesting, constant surveillance, mass deportation, and incarceration, the society at the heart of Cárdenas's new novel is less speculative dystopia than realist reflection. Channeling Philip K. Dick and Samuel Delany, Cárdenas imagines a society where Latin Americans are systematically expunged... American Abductions tells a new kind of immigrant story, suffused with mysticism and philosophical rigor." --Daniella Fishman, The Millions "Cárdenas incorporates multiple references to and discussions of his artistic touchstones, such as the writer Roberto Bolaño and the composer Olivier Messiaen; these allusions speak to the foundations of the novel's form. But the style of American Abductions is about more than simply shooting off modernist fireworks. Cárdenas is saying something important about how trauma is shared, and mediated, across generations... Cárdenas's novel shows us that reckoning with the future is just as important as reckoning with the past. Indeed, both actions require impressive feats of imagination, empathy, and courage." --Wilson McBee, Southwest Review, A Millions Most-Anticipated Book of 2024 "Mauro Javier Cárdenas has knocked down the novel as we know it, and built a cathedral out of the debris." --Carlos Fonseca "Cárdenas's narrative engines include oneiric séances, unheralded victims rebaptized as 20th-century Surrealists, a plausible robot named Roberto Bolaño, and lives fractured by trauma, death or computer algorithms ...Cárdenas reminds us that Surrealism also had a social ethos, to destabilize ruinous order through art. Similarly, this is what American Abductions offers: the art-polemic as a defiant, befitting medium for our dire times." --Gina Apostol, The New York Times "One of the most affecting and inventive English-language novels in recent memory, a playful and experimental narrative about narratives in which the question of who is telling the story -- and how they go about doing it -- proves the real subject." --Robert Rubsam, The Washington Post "Cárdenas writes with both playfulness and erudition. The long, looping sentences brim with references to writers and surrealists, as well as with rage and dark humor. His concern is less with individual stories, and more with the effects of fear and trauma on an entire population. A dark, original work." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Mauro Javier Cárdenas can maunder with the best. The syntax in his first novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again (2016), shuttled between telegraphic and garrulous, but his next, Aphasia (2021), sank into pillowy heaps of rhetoric like those in the new American Abductions . ... Yet, while his novels to date dazzle with verbal pyrotechnics, they also set off deeper disturbances." --John Domini, The Brooklyn Rail "Plagued by data harvesting, constant surveillance, mass deportation, and incarceration, the society at the heart of Cárdenas's new novel is less speculative dystopia than realist reflection. Channeling Philp K. Dick and Samuel Delany, Cárdenas imagines a society where Latin Americans are systematically expunged. ... American Abductions tells a new kind of immigrant story, suffused with mysticism and philosophical rigor." --Daniella Fishman, The Millions
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Cáaacute;rdenas' novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century. American Abductions opens in a near-future United States whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and algorithms has enabled the mass incarceration and deportation of Latin Americans-regardless of citizenship. After their father is abducted by immigration officials before their eyes and deported to Colombia, Ada and her sister Eva are left to contend with a United States as all-seeing as it is hostile. Now adults, Ada remains in San Francisco while Eva has joined their father in Colombia, tending him in his ailing health. When his condition worsens, Eva asks Ada to come see them: a nearly impossible feat, given the United States' restrictions on Latin Americans' movements. Ada, terribly alone, must come to terms with the violence of American society and the grief of lost community. Exploring the role of technology, mass society, and American expectations on how Latin American deportees should tell their stories, the novel delves into the ties, memories, and lines of code binding communities together. Mauro Javier Cárdenas has been lauded as one of the most promising Latin American authors, and in American Abductions , his deconstruction of American society and the surveillance state proves his generation-defining acuity and storytelling. The book's polyphony of mysticism, technology, and philosophy calls to mind the perceptive dystopian visions of Philip K. Dick and the visionary stylistic fluidity of Samuel Delany. The result is a sharp and metaphysical narrative, a masterwork examining the place of Latin Americans in a United States that is always changing., Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Cárdenas' novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century. American Abductions opens in a near-future United States whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and algorithms has enabled the mass incarceration and deportation of Latin Americans--regardless of citizenship. After their father is abducted by immigration officials before their eyes and deported to Colombia, Ada and her sister Eva are left to contend with a United States as all-seeing as it is hostile. Now adults, Ada remains in San Francisco while Eva has joined their father in Colombia, tending him in his ailing health. When his condition worsens, Eva asks Ada to come see them: a nearly impossible feat, given the United States' restrictions on Latin Americans' movements. Ada, terribly alone, must come to terms with the violence of American society and the grief of lost community. Exploring the role of technology, mass society, and American expectations on how Latin American deportees should tell their stories, the novel delves into the ties, memories, and lines of code binding communities together. Mauro Javier Cárdenas has been lauded as one of the most promising Latin American authors, and in American Abductions , his deconstruction of American society and the surveillance state proves his generation-defining acuity and storytelling. The book's polyphony of mysticism, technology, and philosophy calls to mind the perceptive dystopian visions of Philip K. Dick and the visionary stylistic fluidity of Samuel Delany. The result is a sharp and metaphysical narrative, a masterwork examining the place of Latin Americans in a United States that is always changing.
LC Classification Number
PS3603.A7346A83 2024
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