A novelby Rodrigo Mrquez Tizano,translated by Thomas Bunstead
November 5,20195.5 x8.25 160 pages 978-1-56689-563-7
In this hallucinatory novel of ruin and reconstruction, a man and his lover search for closure while a virulent plague hastens disaster in the world around them.
In achaotic city, the latest in a line of viruses advances as a man recounts the fated steps that led him to be confined in a room with his lover while catastrophe looms. As he takes inventory of the citys ills, a strange stone distorts reality, offering brief glimpses of the deserted territories of his memory. A sports game that beguiles the city with near-religious significance, the hugely popular gambling systems rigged by the Department of Chaos and Gaming,an upbringing in schools that disappeared classmates even if the plagues didnteverything holds significance and nothing gives answers in the vision realm of his own making.
The turbulent and sweeping world of Jakarta erupts with engrossing new dystopias and magnetic prose to provide a portrait of a fallen society that exudes both rage and resignation.
About the Author
Rodrigo Mrquez Tizano (Mexico City, 1984) is a writer. He has been the editor in chief ofVICEmagazine in Mexico and Argentina and is a founding editor of La Dulce Ciencia Ediciones, a publishing imprint dedicated to the world of boxing. He received his MFA from NYU and is completing a PhD at Cornell University.Jakartais his first novel.
Thomas Bunstead has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, most recently The Optic Nerve by Mara Gainza and The NocillaTrilogy by Agustn Fernndez Mallo. His own writing has appeared in publications such as theParis Review Daily,theTimes Literary Supplement,and theWhite Review. He is aneditor at the literary translation journalIn Other Words.