Miguel Ángel Hernández Anoxia recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Spaanse roman. Op 4 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Orher Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman uit 2023 van de uit Spanje afkomstige schrijver Miguel Ángel Hernández. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Miguel Ángel Hernández Anoxia recensie en informatie
- “The macabre and stimulating story of a woman drawn into the world of mortuary photography…Dolores’s uncanny feelings build as her town is plagued by floods, giving this exploration of grief a gravitas that edges on the gothic, even as Hernández’s style remains sober and satisfyingly understated. This will linger in readers’ minds.” (Publishers Weekly)
- “Hernández has achieved the perfect equilibrium…The tradition of mortuary photography drives a mysterious plot that flirts with the thriller, though the greatest value lies in the subtlety with which Hernández tackles the emotional consequences of grief.” (El Cultural)
Anoxia
- Auteur: Miguel Ángel Hernández (Spanje)
- Soort boek: Spaanse roman
- Origineel: Anoxia (2023)
- Engelse vertaling: Adrian Nathan West
- Uitgever: Orher Press
- Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
- Omvang: 304 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol
Flaptekst van de roman van de Spaanse schrijver Miguel Ángel Hernández
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 Artés, 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 Ángel Hernández 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.
Miguel Ángel Hernández is born in 1977 in Murcia, Spain. He is a Spanish writer best known for his works of fiction, among them the novels Intento de escapada (2013), which won the Premio Ciudad Alcalá de Narrativa and was translated into five languages, El instante de peligro (2015), which was a finalist for the Premio Herralde de Novela, and El dolor de los demás (2018), which was selected as a book of the year by El País and the New York Times en Español. Hernández teaches art history at the University of Murcia and has authored several books on art and visual culture.