Jakarta - by Rodrigo Márquez Tizano (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In a chaotic 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 city's 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 didn't--everything holds significance and nothing gives answers in the vision realm of his own making.<br /><br />The turbulent and sweeping world of <em>Jakarta</em> erupts with engrossing new dystopias and magnetic prose to provide a portrait of a fallen society that exudes both rage and resignation.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Its style is unique to Tizano . . . An assured but challenging anti-narrative, its offbeat structure evoking a world slipped off its axis." <em><strong>--Kirkus</strong></em></p> <p>"Dense with imagery and boundless imagination . . . Blending the wildly dystopian with the mundanity of the everyday, this time-jumping narrative is a bolt of originality from a writer to watch." <em><strong>--Publishers Weekly</strong></em></p> <p>"Mind-blowingly original, powerful and stark prose, captivating rhythm, and haunting, memorable imagery. Tizano is a master of the uncanny." <strong>--Valeria Luiselli</strong></p> <p>"Tizano fashions an original, astonishing, and terrifyingly unhinged dystopia...Thomas Bunstead adds to an impressive resumé with a seamlessly literary and peppery translation from the Spanish." <strong>--<em>The Millions</em></strong></p><p>"The rewards that come from reading Jakarta are manifold. . . . This is Tizano's first novel, ably translated by Thomas Bunstead, but he has the boldness of someone who's been at it for decades. It's the beginning of a promising literary career.&rdquo <strong><em>--Star Tribune</strong></em></p><p>"This challenging, provocative short novel conjures fever-dreams of a city ravaged by plague . . . horror-touched rather than horror itself, with beguiling short chapters and a mad variety of interests. To show it all at once, Tizano dares readers to get a little lost." <strong><em>--Shelf Awareness</em></strong></p><p>"Superb. . . . this novel signals the arrival of a unique, important voice on the American literary landscape." <strong><em>--Southwest Review</strong></em></p><p>"The non-linear structure, the density of the prose, the general weirdness of the setting mean you have to pay attention. That's a good thing. . . . Tizano's distinctive style and his boundless imagination are a thrill to read." <strong><em>--Locus Magazine</strong></em></p><p>"It takes a text like <em>Jakarta, </em> I think, to remind us of the purpose of literature, or perhaps the multi-faceted nature of that purpose. . . . A wonderfully cathartic text, in the truest Aristotelian sense, one that tackles extremely difficult and unfortunately poignant subject matter and handles it with supremely gratifying deftness." <strong><em>--Angel City Review</strong></em></p> <p>"<em>Jakarta</em> is a remarkable book, a layered exploration of a devastated world unlike anything I've ever read before. Patiently, strangely, these interconnected fragments reassemble into a nightmarish and beautiful hum--one meant to be experienced, not described. Let me press this apocalyptic book into your hands and say: <em>Prepare.</em>" <strong>--Colin Winnette</strong> </p> <p>"<em>Jakarta</em> is what all novels should be and few are: a cultural narrative, a trace of unhinged civilization where individuals function like particles, suffering everything while aspiring to nothing but the cruel, unnoticed, even unwarranted heroism of the great anonymous histories." <strong>--Sergio Chejfec</strong></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Rodrigo Márquez Tizano (Mexico City, 1984) is a writer. He has been the editor in chief of <em>VICE</em> magazine 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. <em>Jakarta</em> is his first novel.</p> <p>Thomas Bunstead has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, most recently <em>The Optic Nerve</em> by María Gainza and <em>The Nocilla </em><em>Trilogy</em> by Agustín Fernández Mallo. His own writing has appeared in publications such as the <em>Paris Review Daily, </em> the <em>Times Literary Supplement, </em> and the <em>White Review</em>. He is an editor at the literary translation journal <em>In Other Words</em>.</p>
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