Passionate Nomads - Softcover

Maria Rosa Lojo; Brett Alan Sanders (translator)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098227842X ISBN 13: 9780982278420

Publisher: Aliform Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Merlin the Magician and his ward the fairy Rosaura dos Carballos, daughter of Morgan Le Fey, depart their dusty castle in the Old World and set off on a journey through the modern Americas in search of the legendary Ranquel Indians. As they attempt to reconcile the past and the present, they encounter lost manuscripts and the ghosts of past adventurers amidst the shifting terrain of modern Argentina. Passionate Nomads is the recipient of the Programa Sur Award from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina.

About this title

About the Author:

Maria Rosa Lojo is one of contemporary Latin America's most unique narrative voices. She has won numerous awards for her fiction and poetry both in Argentina and abroad and in 2010 received the Bicentennial Award for her contribution to Argentine culture. She is also a professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires and a frequent contributor to academic and literary magazines and journals. Brett Alan Sanders is an award-winning translator and author, as well as a contributing editor at Tertulia Magazine. His other translations include Maria Rosa Lojo's poetry collection Esperan la mañana verde (Awaiting the Green Morning).

Review:

Passionate Nomads is a most extraordinary addition to the literature of the New World. To bring Merlin the Magician and a daughter of Morgan Le Fay to 20th-century Argentina might be merely whimsical, but then to revive the Indians of the pampas along with a 19th-century general who both wrote about them and helped massacre them takes fictional daring of a high order...A profound fantasy of the real -- not a rewriting of history but an imaginative recall and understanding of what has been forgotten, cannot be remembered and yet must be remembered. Ursula K. Le Guin, author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea and Catwing series --jacket blurb

A fantastical medieval fiction that breaks into Latin American reality with humor and imagination. Ana Clavel, author of Shipwrecked Body and Desire and Its Shadow --jacket blurb

A profound meditation on existence. --La Gaceta (Buenos Aires)

About this edition

• Publisher: Aliform Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 098227842X
• ISBN 13: 9780982278420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Jay Miskowiec