{"product_id":"divided-island-paperback","title":"Divided Island - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniela Tarazona\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLizzie Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eKevin Gerry Dunn\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief as she moves through disjointed segments of time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivided Island\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. The day she goes in for the encephalogram that will lead to her diagnosis, she finds herself splitting in two. One of the two women she becomes decides to travel to an island to take her own life; the other remains behind. Scenes and images real and imagined gradually coalesce into the story of a life told from a singular location: a way of perceiving and describing the world, guided by cerebral dysrhythmia. Written in scraps and fragmented chapters, \u003ci\u003eDivided Island\u003c\/i\u003e is a nonlinear narrative best read as a poetic experience, in which the protagonist's memories and dreams recompose the world and, in doing so, trouble the very notion of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis slim volume makes it abundantly clear why Daniela Tarazona belongs in the company of other Sor Juana winners like Valeria Luiselli, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Almudena Grandes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniela Tarazona\u003c\/b\u003e (Mexico City, 1975) is the author of \u003ci\u003eEl animal sobre la piedra\u003c\/i\u003e (Mexico, Almadía, 2008, and Argentina, Entropía, 2011), forthcoming as \u003ci\u003eThe Animal on the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e from Deep Vellum. In 2012, she published her second novel \u003ci\u003eEl beso de la liebre\u003c\/i\u003e (Alfaguara), which was shortlisted for the Las Américas Prize in 2013. In 2020, the book \u003ci\u003eClarice Lispector: La mirada en el jardín\u003c\/i\u003e (Lumen) was published, co-written by Tarazona and Nuria Mel. Her work has been translated into English and French. She has been a fellow of Mexico's Young Artists program and is currently a member of the FONCA fund's National Network of Artists. In 2011, she was recognized as one of twenty-five Latin American literary secrets by the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In 2022, she received the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for \u003ci\u003eDivided Island\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLizzie Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator, a writer, and former senior editor at Coffee House Press. Her recent translations include Juan Cárdenas's \u003ci\u003eOrnamental\u003c\/i\u003e (a finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize) and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil of the Provinces\u003c\/i\u003e; Elena Medel's \u003ci\u003eThe Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e, cotranslated with Thomas Bunstead; and work by Valeria Luiselli, Pilar Fraile Amador, and Daniela Tarazona.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Gerry Dunn\u003c\/b\u003e is a ghostwriter and Spanish\/English translator whose book-length projects include \u003ci\u003eEasy Reading\u003c\/i\u003e by Cristina Morales (for which he received an English PEN Award and a PEN\/Heim Grant) and work by Paul B. Preciado, María Bastarós, Elaine Vilar Madruga, Ousman Umar, Daniela Tarazona, Javier Castillo, Paco Cerdà, and Cristian Perfumo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41863597457543,"sku":"9781646053148","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c5a1ff885304cc8110bbddc6d8c1351f.webp?v=1734081405","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/divided-island-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}