Nancy - by Bruno Lloret (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>A heartrending novel punctuated by graves, footsteps, x-rays, and crosses, Bruno Lloret's English-language debut, moodily translated from Spanish by Ellen Jones, combines formal invention and powerful storytelling to transcendent effect, brilliantly staging the jubilance and hubris of youth against the horrors of history, illness, and memory.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"Extraordinary...reach[es] a new, unexpected, dissident realism." --Alejandro Zambra, author of <em>My Documents</em> and <em>Multiple Choice</em></b></p><p>Alone again in a Chile punctuated by graves, footsteps, x-rays, and crosses, Nancy looks back on her life. Before her cancer, before her husband's ridiculous death, before she fled home hidden in the back of a truck, she spent her youth at Playa Roja, hearing the rumors of disappeared girls and dead boys while swimming alongside her friends and the creepy old gringos. Her family lost to religion, alcohol, and violence, Nancy has been forced to fend for herself in a world designed to crush her. She keeps going despite it all. </p> <p> And now, recounting her story from her deathbed, Nancy takes this life in her hands, shapes it anew, and turns it into something else: not a mere calendar of crossed-out days but a wholly original testament to the quiet dignity of a difficult journey. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Lloret leans into the uncanny and absurd to illustrate the devastating and very real effects that capitalism and climate change have on everyday Chileans. The desert landscape, like Nancy's health, is rapidly deteriorating....Ellen Jones's stunning translation reflects the novel's almost biblical style. She uses simple yet visceral prose to render Lloret's ominous portrayal of a crumbling landscape ravaged by environmental degradation and poverty." <b>--<em>Full Stop</em></b></p><p>"As the climate crisis continues to ravage our world, Lloret illustrates one possible future we are barreling towards, while focusing, as good novelists do, on the singular drama of an individual and her kin." <b>--<em>Rain Taxi</em></b></p><p>"Lloret employs unusual typography, punctuating the book with a series of bold X's; the effect is jarring but powerful, reminding the reader of <em>Nancy</em>'s impending fate. This is a gorgeous novel from a writer unafraid to consider the darkness...Bleak, beautiful, and incredibly powerful." <b>--<em>Kirkus</em> (starred review)</b></p><p>"Inventively sly...brilliantly, stunningly translated by Ellen Jones, <em>Nancy</em> proves both bewildering and illuminating. For intrepid readers, indelible rewards await." <b>--<em>Shelf Awareness</em> (starred review)</b></p><p>"<em>Nancy</em> heralds a future-facing vanguard in Chilean letters...and, despite its deep local roots, belongs to a burgeoning international literature of shared crises.... Ellen Jones makes this difficult translation look easy...Jones' skill extends from the language all the way down to this deliberate, fraught punctuation." <b>--<em>Asymptote</em></b></p><p>"Formally inventive and harrowingly expressive... This is a book that's about both enduring and surviving trauma; the presence of skewed perspectives on religion and belief make this work even more haunting. File this one in the rare category of fiction that feels both utterly contemporary and deeply dystopian." <b>--<em>Words Without Borders</em></b></p><p>"Through Ellen Jones, who translated the novel from Spanish, Lloret at once extols capitalism, environmental destruction, religious zeal and domestic violence, while in the next breath, he writes about loneliness and pain with incredible tenderness. His writing is gritty, desolate and dusty, as if the desert landscape could seep into the text and its characters on its own." <b>--<em>The Rupture</em></b></p><p>"The writing shines with piercing descriptions of pain, drawn up in increasingly fractured minimalist prose.... This visually striking fever dream is one worth braving." <b>--<em>Publishers Weekly</em></b></p><p>"[<em>Nancy</em>'s] descriptions are rich, its emotions moving, and its symbolism profound....An engaging work that will leave its readers pondering its themes long after they've finished the final page, powerfully drawing attention to harms done to everyday Chileans by merciless heavy industry and domineering religious groups." <b>--<em>The Harvard Crimson</em></b></p><p>"An inventory of abandonment and abuse, inevitable diary of death and of growing up, a diatribe against routine religious fervor, and a bitter collection of involuntary poetry, this extraordinary novel far transcends denunciation and the exercise in style, reaching a new, unexpected, dissident realism." <b>--Alejandro Zambra, author of <em>My Documents</em> and <em>Multiple Choice</em></b></p><p>"An alarming, beautifully compassionate novel. Original and perfect for these strange times we live in." <b>--Jazmina Barrera, author of <em>On Lighthouses</em></b></p><p>"A devastating, psychic exploration of our crumbling world, told in a visceral style that proves Bruno Lloret to be a force among the emerging Chilean writers of today." <b>--Fernando A. Flores, author of <em>Tears of the Trufflepig</em></b></p><p>"Bruno Lloret's <em>Nancy</em> is a requiem, a funeral pyre, a poetic novel dedicated to the factory towns and their unremembered inhabitants. Told with breathless economy, an entire world of Romany and gringos, sinners and the devout walk across the serrated desert of this Chilean masterpiece. Part coming-of-age, part meditation on poverty, grief and environmental collapse, I've never read anything quite like it." <b>--Mark Haber, author of <em>Reinhardt's Garden</em></b></p><p>"A profound and disturbing meditation on the nature of belief, poverty and the human detritus of global capital."<b> --<em>The Saturday Paper</em></b></p><p>"<em>Nancy</em> is a work of great emotional and intellectual maturity. It is surprising that it is a debut novel. With it, Bruno Lloret announces himself as a writer who is unafraid to explore life at the margins of society, but who is sensitive to the complexity of his subject. The stark, brutal simplicity of the prose, rendered in translation by Ellen Jones, highlights the brutality of the world created on these pages." <b>--<em>3: AM Magazine</em></b></p><p>"An atmospheric, expansive story of melancholy situated somewhere between the Pacific Ocean and the Atacama Desert....<em>Nancy</em> works at the height of fiction's power to bring us closer to others." <b>--<em>ArtsHub</em> (5/5 stars)</b></p><p>"[<em>Nancy</em>] uncovers the painful wounds inflicted by belief and by poverty, when life has become a wilderness, a minefield, an act of survival, in which even love and desire are reduced to nothing, witnesses to a happiness as improbable as it is precarious."<b> ―Leonardo Sanhueza </b> </p><p>"We have here an extremely sensitive, intelligent, talented writer...A marvel." <b>--Rodrigo Hidalgo, <em>El Guillatún</em></b> </p><p>"One of the most original books of the year" <b>--Natalia Berbelagua, <em>Revista Intemperie</em></b> </p><p>"A novel that flows naturally and can be read quickly, which is not to say that it's simple - quite the opposite. It toys with existential questions about what it means to be human." <b>--Juvenal Romero Pérez, <em>Revista Lecturas</em></b></p><br>
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