On Lighthouses Jazmina Barrera Christina Macsweeney Translation by Jazmina Barrera, Christina Macsweeney (translation) 9781949641028, 9781949641011, 1949641023, 1949641015, 2019034279 instant download after payment.

Far from home, in the confines of a dim NY apartment where the oppressive skyscrapers further isolate her, Jazmina Barrera takes the reader on a tour of her lighthouses--those structures whose message is "1st & foremost, that human beings are here." 

Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's grandfather, an engineer charged with illuminating the Scottish coastline, On Lighthouses takes readers on an artful tour of lighthouses from the Spanish to the Oregon coasts & those in the works of Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ingmar Bergman, & many others. In trying to "collect" lighthouses by obsessively describing them, Barrera begins to question the nature of writing, collecting, and how, by staring so intently at 1 thing we are only trying to avoid others. 

Equal parts personal memoir & literary history, On Lighthouses takes the reader on a desperate flight from raging sea to cold stone--from a hopeless isolation to a meaningful 1--concluding at last in a place of peace: the home of a selfless, guiding light.

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Jazmina Barrera’s books were published in 9 countries & translated to English, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, & French. Her book Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize by Literal Publishing, & On Lighthouses was chosen for the Indie Next list by IndieBound. Linea Nigra was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize, CANIEM’s Book of the Year award, & the Amazon Primera Novela (1st Novel) Award. She is editor & co-founder of Ediciones Antílope

Christina MacSweeney’s translation of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth was awarded the Valle Inclán Translation Prize.