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Barcode30053003860528
StatusChecked Out
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoF HERN
Title Anoxia / Miguel Angel Hernandez ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.
Author Hernâandez, Miguel âAngel, 1977- author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Fiction
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StatusHome LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc Status
Checked OutParis-Bourbon30053003860528F HERN4/11/2025 Due on 4/30/2025

Catalog Details

Personal Name Hernâandez, Miguel âAngel, 1977- author.
Uniform Title Anoxia. English
Title Statement Anoxia / Miguel Angel Hernandez ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Other Press, [2025]
Physical Description 292 pages ; 21 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "In this mesmerizing psychological novel, a strange job leads a widowed photographer down a rabbit hole where the line between past and present, and the living and the dead blurs. What is our relationship with the dead? How do we remember them? What dark secrets do our images of them hold? How do we emerge from grief to face the time we have left? Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Dolores Ayala, owner of an old photography studio that has run out of clients, receives the most unusual assignment of her career: to take a portrait of a deceased person on the day of his funeral. Accepting it leads her to meet Clemente Artâes, an eccentric old man obsessed with recovering the ancient tradition of photographing the dead. Under his guidance, Dolores will explore this forgotten practice, experience the slow time of the daguerreotype, and our need for images to remember those who are no longer there. She will also discover that some of them hold dark secrets that should never be revealed and, above all, that the dead never cease to move and sometimes pounce on the memory of the living. Miguel âAngel Hernâandez has written a subtle, dazzling novel about the borders between life and death, about memory and guilt, about the past that stays with us and our constant search for air to breathe"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Death Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Postmortem photography Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction. lcgft
Added Entry, Personal Name West, Adrian Nathan, translator.

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