The Return of Felix Nogara: A Novel - Hardcover
A major new novel of exile is offered by the author of the critically acclaimed "Marks of Birth". Set in New York, Miami, and Barata, an imaginary island in the Caribbean, the novel explores the condition of expatriation, this time from the vantage point of an exile who returns.
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About the Author:
Pablo Medina is on the faculty of the New School University in New York City.
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A beautifully-written novel of great imagination and depth.... one book you will come back to time and time again. -- James Welch
A novel of sweat-licked, sorrowful history, mythic and actual at once.... Medina's clean, honest prose can break your heart. -- Frederick Busch
A true novel of exile--a journey through the conflicts and paradoxes of this twentieth century malady, which continue to haunt and confront us today. The historical past of an imagined, vintage Caribbean island is replayed and evocatively rewritten, in an attempt to capture its national identity and the local meanings of the region. The remarkable assimilation of the real and imaginary brings to mind Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, where Kublai Khan recognizes one definitive place among the fantastic cities of Marco Polo's travels. The unexpected combinations of authenticity and fiction seem both surprising and obvious, as Median reinterprets the variant faces of political control over the centuries and reconstructs the crucible of modernity and a colonial historical tradition. -- Lourdes Gil
Felix Nogara's return to the imaginary island of Barata is a journey to an underworld where the wounds of the past are still as painful as the flames of hell itself. This contemporary pilgrim's progress is set in a wasteland of loneliness, totalitarianism, and exile--not unlike the world we know. Medina's satirical vision--funny, bleak, melancholy, and wise both about human beings and history--takes one's breath away. -- Jaime Manrique, author of Twilight at the Equator and Colombian Gold
The personal, in these pages, is indeed political....Pablo Medina's clean, honest prose can break your heart. -- Frederick Busch
There are touches reminiscent of Garcia Marquez . . . . a moving portrait. -- Publishers Weekly, 21 August 2000
[D]elicious, astute, darkly funny...this novel is right on target. -- The New York Times Book Review, Bob Shacochis, 22 October 2000
A novel of sweat-licked, sorrowful history, mythic and actual at once.... Medina's clean, honest prose can break your heart. -- Frederick Busch
A true novel of exile--a journey through the conflicts and paradoxes of this twentieth century malady, which continue to haunt and confront us today. The historical past of an imagined, vintage Caribbean island is replayed and evocatively rewritten, in an attempt to capture its national identity and the local meanings of the region. The remarkable assimilation of the real and imaginary brings to mind Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, where Kublai Khan recognizes one definitive place among the fantastic cities of Marco Polo's travels. The unexpected combinations of authenticity and fiction seem both surprising and obvious, as Median reinterprets the variant faces of political control over the centuries and reconstructs the crucible of modernity and a colonial historical tradition. -- Lourdes Gil
Felix Nogara's return to the imaginary island of Barata is a journey to an underworld where the wounds of the past are still as painful as the flames of hell itself. This contemporary pilgrim's progress is set in a wasteland of loneliness, totalitarianism, and exile--not unlike the world we know. Medina's satirical vision--funny, bleak, melancholy, and wise both about human beings and history--takes one's breath away. -- Jaime Manrique, author of Twilight at the Equator and Colombian Gold
The personal, in these pages, is indeed political....Pablo Medina's clean, honest prose can break your heart. -- Frederick Busch
There are touches reminiscent of Garcia Marquez . . . . a moving portrait. -- Publishers Weekly, 21 August 2000
[D]elicious, astute, darkly funny...this novel is right on target. -- The New York Times Book Review, Bob Shacochis, 22 October 2000
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- PublisherPersea
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0892552514
- ISBN 13 9780892552511
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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