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Tears of the Trufflepig: A Novel by Fernando A. Flores (paperback)
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- ISBN
- 9780374538330
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374538336
ISBN-13
9780374538330
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15044139873
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tears of the Trufflepig : a Novel
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / General, Absurdist, Literary, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-044001
Reviews
"Dear Reader, do you want to experience something wonderfully new, something dizzyingly wild, something utterly strange? Do you want to discover an imagination of beauty and humor and horror and majesty? Do you want to see the world afresh? If so, then Fernando A. Flores is for you. I know, for I have met the Trufflepig and I shall never be the same again." --Edward Carey, author of Little "Fernando A. Flores's wonderfully weird, myth-making Tears of the Trufflepig brings us to that hot land of absurdity: the US-Mexico border, all the while stretching ideas of family, fantasy and the fictions that create us. Flores is funny and fierce and not to be forgotten." -- Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark " Tears of the Trufflepig is of the most thrilling novels I've read in ages, a true wild original. By turns a surreal page-turner, a send-up of the consolidation of wealth, and an excavation of life on the border, this novel doesn't bend genre: it explodes the precedents and creates something completely new. Fernando A. Flores is the kind of writer who will reinvigorate your faith in the power of literature." --Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel "I started to think this book was Juan Rulfo meets Philip K. Dick. But Fernando A. Flores smacked me in the head. He sidesteps cliches and expectations. We expect magical realism in a Latino novel as we have come to expect dystopian stories in a sci-fi novel, but his audacity is to ignore all expectations and shoot the moon in any way he chooses. Tears of the Trufflepig is thrilling. Flores has created his own genre." -- Luís Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels "With his striking debut novel, Fernando A. Flores has refashioned a world I thought I knew--the Valley, Texas, the strange alchemy of life on a border--into a grotesquely yet familiar fever-dream. His imagined future captures the truth of our uncanny now with frightening accuracy. Funny and tragic and ultimately compelling, Tears of the Trufflepig is a gorgeous and unsettling read." --Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! "In Tears of the Trufflepig , the metaphor and actuality of the borderlands shimmer together into a vision of haptic, granular, and superbly controlled, convincing reality. A deep dream. A clear-eyed hallucination. Studded with the sweet delayed snap of the nonchalant reveal, cunning details of new worlds--demimondes, hellscapes, mythic lands-- bloom naturally from scene to scene. Fernando A. Flores writes like a hard-boiled psychotropic angel." --Eugene Lim, author of Dear Cyborgs, "The political reality of our present is all too easily recognized in this version of the future . . . a nightmarish if fascinating vision of a borderland of multiple, parallel walls; designer genertic experimentation; and gridsy violence--all dabbed liberally with folkloric strokes. For fans of magical realism and near-future settings, e.g., Margaret Atwood''s Oryx and Crake, and of Hunter S. Thompson''s psychedelic energy." -- Library Journal " Tears of the Trufflepig is the most engagingly original novel I''ve read in ages. So phantasmagoric, fearlessly out there, and yet it feels like a revelation, piercingly true to gritty human experience and wild as anything you might sense lurking in the Borderland night. It''s the borderland speaking to you, a tale told from the future by the wiliest, funniest, most battle-scarred cabrón in the cantina. " --Francisco Goldman, author of The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle " Tears of the Trufflepig is of the most thrilling novels I''ve read in ages, a true wild original. By turns a surreal page-turner, a send-up of the consolidation of wealth, and an excavation of life on the border, this novel doesn''t bend genre: it explodes the precedents and creates something completely new. Fernando A. Flores is the kind of writer who will reinvigorate your faith in the power of literature." --Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel "Dear Reader, do you want to experience something wonderfully new, something dizzyingly wild, something utterly strange? Do you want to discover an imagination of beauty and humor and horror and majesty? Do you want to see the world afresh? If so, then Fernando A. Flores is for you. I know, for I have met the Trufflepig and I shall never be the same again." --Edward Carey, author of Little "Fernando A. Flores has created a world that looks a lot like ours, but without the fat, without the self-complacency, and without the shadows that impede us from seeing the universal drama happening before our eyes. Tears of the Trufflepig is a beautiful story about the struggle between the profane and the sacred and what we can do about it." --Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World "Fernando A. Flores''s wonderfully weird, myth-making Tears of the Trufflepig brings us to that hot land of absurdity: the US-Mexico border, all the while stretching ideas of family, fantasy and the fictions that create us. Flores is funny and fierce and not to be forgotten." -- Samantha Hunt, author of The Dark Dark "I started to think this book was Juan Rulfo meets Philip K. Dick. But Fernando A. Flores smacked me in the head. He sidesteps cliches and expectations. We expect magical realism in a Latino novel as we have come to expect dystopian stories in a sci-fi novel, but his audacity is to ignore all expectations and shoot the moon in any way he chooses. Tears of the Trufflepig is thrilling. Flores has created his own genre." --Luís Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels "With his striking debut novel, Fernando A. Flores has refashioned a world I thought I knew--the Valley, Texas, the strange alchemy of life on a border--into a grotesquely yet familiar fever-dream. His imagined future captures the truth of our uncanny now with frightening accuracy. Funny and tragic and ultimately compelling, Tears of the Trufflepig is a gorgeous and unsettling read." --Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! "In Tears of the Trufflepig , the metaphor and actuality of the borderlands shimmer together into a vision of haptic, granular, and superbly controlled, convincing reality. A deep dream. A clear-eyed hallucination. Studded with the sweet delayed snap of the nonchalant reveal, cunning details of new worlds--demimondes, hellscapes, mythic lands-- bloom naturally from scene to scene. Fernando A. Flores writes like a hard-boiled psychotropic angel." --Eugene Lim, author of Dear Cyborgs
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE. One of Tor.com 's Best Books of 2019. "Readers of this breakout work [will leave] thrilled and disoriented in equal measure." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal One of The Daily Beast 's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one of Lit Hub and The Millions 's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of Buzzfeed and Tor.com 's Books to Read This Spring, and one of the Chicago Review of Books ' Best New Books of May A parallel universe. South Texas. A third border wall might be erected between the United States and Mexico, narcotics are legal and there's a new contraband on the market: filtered animals--species of animals brought back from extinction to amuse the very wealthy. Esteban Bellacosa has lived in the border town of MacArthur long enough to know to keep quiet and avoid the dangerous syndicates who make their money through trafficking. But his simple life gets complicated after a swashbuckling journalist invites him to an underground dinner at which filtered animals are served. Bellacosa soon finds himself in the middle of an increasingly perilous and surreal journey, in the course of which he encounters legends of the long-disappeared Aranaña Indian tribe and their object of worship: the mysterious Trufflepig, said to possess strange powers. Written with infectious verve, bold imagination, and oddball humor, Fernando A. Flores's Tears of the Trufflepig is an absurdist take on life along the border, an ode to the myths of Mexican culture, and an introduction to a staggeringly smart new voice in American fiction., LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE. One of Tor.com 's Best Books of 2019. "Readers of this breakout work will leave] thrilled and disoriented in equal measure." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal One of The Daily Beast 's Best Summer Beach Reads of 2019, one of Lit Hub and The Millions 's Most Anticipated Books of 2019, one of Buzzfeed and Tor.com 's Books to Read This Spring, and one of the Chicago Review of Books ' Best New Books of May A parallel universe. South Texas. A third border wall might be erected between the United States and Mexico, narcotics are legal and there's a new contraband on the market: filtered animals--species of animals brought back from extinction to amuse the very wealthy. Esteban Bellacosa has lived in the border town of MacArthur long enough to know to keep quiet and avoid the dangerous syndicates who make their money through trafficking. But his simple life gets complicated after a swashbuckling journalist invites him to an underground dinner at which filtered animals are served. Bellacosa soon finds himself in the middle of an increasingly perilous and surreal journey, in the course of which he encounters legends of the long-disappeared Arana a Indian tribe and their object of worship: the mysterious Trufflepig, said to possess strange powers. Written with infectious verve, bold imagination, and oddball humor, Fernando A. Flores's Tears of the Trufflepig is an absurdist take on life along the border, an ode to the myths of Mexican culture, and an introduction to a staggeringly smart new voice in American fiction.
LC Classification Number
PS3606.L5886T43 2019
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