Research Catalog
Brickmakers : a novel
- Title
- Brickmakers : a novel / Selva Almada ; translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott.
- Author
- Almada, Selva, 1973-
- Publication
- New York : Graywolf Press, [2021]
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-705 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- McDermott, Annie
- Description
- 181 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, Pájaro and Ángelito, somehow fell in love. Brickmakers begins as Pájaro and Marciano, Ángelito's older brother, lie dying in the mud at the base of a Ferris wheel. Inhabiting a dreamlike state between life and death, they recall the events that forced them to pay the price of their fathers' petty feud.The Tamai and Miranda families are caught, like the Capulets and the Montagues, in an almost mythic conflict, one that emerges from stubborn pride and intractable machismo. Like her heralded debut, The Wind That Lays Waste, Selva Almada's fierce and tender second novel is an unforgettable portrayal of characters who initially seem to stand in opposition, but are ultimately revealed to be bound by their similarities.Almada enlarges the tradition of some of the most distinctive prose stylists of our time. In Brickmakers, she furthers her extraordinary exploration of masculinity and the realities of working-class rural life. This is another exquisitely written and powerfully told story by a major international voice.
- Uniform Title
- Ladrilleros. English
- Alternative Title
- Ladrilleros.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Gay fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Note
- Originally published in Argentina by Mardulce in 2013.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-705
- ISBN
- 9781644450697
- 1644450690
- LCCN
- 2020951433
- OCLC
- 1266265679
- Author
- Almada, Selva, 1973- author.
- Title
- Brickmakers : a novel / Selva Almada ; translated from the Spanish by Annie McDermott.
- Publisher
- New York : Graywolf Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- McDermott, Annie, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-705