{"product_id":"divided-island-9781646053148","title":"Divided Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana In?s de la\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas she moves through disjointed segments of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided Island is the story of a woman with a neurological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edisorder. The day she goes in for the encephalogram that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill lead to her diagnosis, she finds herself splitting in two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the women she becomes decides to travel to an island\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto take her own life; the other remains behind. Scenes and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimages real and imagined gradually coalesce into the story of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea life told from a singular location: a way of perceiving and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edescribing the world, guided by cerebral dysrhythmia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in scraps and fragmented chapters, Divided Island is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea nonlinear narrative best read as a poetic experience, in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich the protagonist's memories and dreams recompose the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eworld and, in doing so, trouble the very notion of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis slim volume makes it abundantly clear why Daniela\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTarazona belongs in the company of other Sor Juana\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewinners like Lina Meruane, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Maria Gainza.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniela Tarazona\u003c\/b\u003e (Mexico City, 1975) is the author of \u003ci\u003eEl animal sobre la piedra\u003c\/i\u003e (Mexico, Almadía, 2008, and Argentina, Entropía, 2011), forthcoming as \u003ci\u003eThe Animal on the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e from Deep Vellum. In 2012, she published her second novel \u003ci\u003eEl beso de la liebre\u003c\/i\u003e (Alfaguara), which was shortlisted for the Las Américas Prize in 2013. In 2020, the book \u003ci\u003eClarice Lispector: La mirada en el jardín\u003c\/i\u003e (Lumen) was published, co-written by Tarazona and Nuria Mel. Her work has been translated into English and French. She has been a fellow of Mexico's Young Artists program and is currently a member of the FONCA fund's National Network of Artists. In 2011, she was recognized as one of twenty-five Latin American literary secrets by the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In 2022, she received the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for \u003ci\u003eDivided Island\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLizzie Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator, a writer, and former senior editor at Coffee House Press. Her recent translations include Juan Cárdenas's \u003ci\u003eOrnamental\u003c\/i\u003e (a finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize) and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil of the Provinces\u003c\/i\u003e; Elena Medel's \u003ci\u003eThe Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e, cotranslated with Thomas Bunstead; and work by Valeria Luiselli, Pilar Fraile Amador, and Daniela Tarazona.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Gerry Dunn\u003c\/b\u003e is a ghostwriter and Spanish\/English translator whose book-length projects include \u003ci\u003eEasy Reading\u003c\/i\u003e by Cristina Morales (for which he received an English PEN Award and a PEN\/Heim Grant) and work by Paul B. Preciado, María Bastarós, Elaine Vilar Madruga, Ousman Umar, Daniela Tarazona, Javier Castillo, Paco Cerdà, and Cristian Perfumo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615037559058,"sku":"9781646053148","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0be25a9e-e928-4f42-8a37-bdb5c1c28338.jpg?v=1732473188","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/divided-island-9781646053148","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}