- Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023 · Shortlist · for the translation by Ellen Jones
The Wake
El rastro
Margo Glantz (born 1930)
Translated by Andrew Hurley, Ellen Jones
English editions
In EnglishThe Remains · translated by Ellen Jones
Charco Press · United Kingdom · 2023 · Paperback · 134 pages
The Wake · translated by Andrew Hurley
Curbstone Press · United States · September 2005 · Paperback
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Juan, a famous pianist, has suffered a fatal heart attack, and his former wife Nora García, a cellist, comes back for his funeral. Over the vigil, the requiem and the burial she talks to herself in one long monologue about their marriage, about music and books, about loving and dying. The novel is shaped like a set of variations on a theme, returning to the same phrases and changing them each time, and the heart, both the organ that failed and the beat that drives music, is at its core.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 172 pages in the original
- First published
- 2002 by Anagrama
- Author's age
- 72 when first published
- ISBN
9788433968364 (original)
9781931896238 (Curbstone Press, United States)
9781913867478 (Charco Press, United Kingdom)