| International Standard Book Number |
9780063213876 hardback
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063213877 hardback
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| Personal Name |
Sainz Borgo, Karina, 1982- author. aut.
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| Title Statement |
No place to bury the dead / Karina Sainz Borgo ; translated by Elizabeth Bryer.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
c2024.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, New York : Harpervia, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
256 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In an unnamed Latin American country, a mysterious plague quickly spreads, erasing the memory of anyone infected. Angustias Romero flees with her family, but their flight is tragically cut short when she loses both her children. Consumed by grief, she finds herself within the hallucinatory expanse of Mezquite--a town corrupted by greed and populated by storytellers, refugees, and violent, predatory gangs. Here, Angustias is finally able to lay her children to rest at the Third Country, a cemetery run by the larger-than-life Visitacin Salazar and a refuge beyond suffering and fear. While Visitacin remains defiant in her mission to care for the dead, the cemetery she oversees is the focal point of a bitter land dispute with Alcides Abundio, the most feared landowner of the border. Caught in this power struggle, Angustias and Visitacin-friends and sometimes rivals- stand their ground on a frontier where the law is dictated by violence; a surreal territory whose very nature blurs the boundaries between life and death. Exploring what we are capable of and how far we will go when we have nothing to lose, No Place to Bury the Dead confirms Karina Sainz Borgo's importance amongst the voices of modern Latin American literature, merging thriller, western, and classic tragedy in an unforgettable and urgent novel that won the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Language note |
Translated from Spanish.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Plague Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction. lcgft.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Amnesia Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Cemeteries Latin America Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Refugees Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spanish language Translating into English.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Thrillers (Fiction. lcgft.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Bryer, Beth, 1986- translator.
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