This Is Not Miami Aquí No Es Miami Fernanda Melchor Sophie Hughes Translation by Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (translation) 9780811228060, 0811228061 instant download after payment.

“Some of the most wrenching prose to come around in years. Skillfully translated by Hughes, this is a book that’s as gorgeous as it is dark, & it proves that Melchor is one of the finest writers working today.” —  Kirkus Reviews

“While her writing turns an unsparing eye on the dysfunction & violence of her native Veracruz, Melchor makes clear that it is neither her job nor her intention to explain her homeland. Her novels are less portraits of Mexico than they are literary MRIs, probing unseen corners of the human heart & finding that many of its darker shades are Universal.” — Benjamin P. Russell, The New York Times

A searing collection of true stories from “one of Mexico’s most exciting new voices” (The Guardian) 

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2023 Cercador Prize Finalist

Set in & around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories—spiraling from real events—that bleed together reportage & the author’s rich & rigorous imagination.

These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the motivations of murderers & misfits, into their desires & circumstances, forcing us to understand them—and even empathize—despite our wish to simply label them monsters. As in her hugely acclaimed novels Hurricane Season & Paradais, Fernanda Melchor’s masterful stories show how the violent & shocking aberrations that make the headlines are only the surface ruptures of a society on the brink of chaos.

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Sophie Hughes has translated novels by several contemporary Latin American & Spanish authors, including Laia Jufresa & Rodrigo Hasbún. Her translation of Alia Trabucco Zerán’s The Remainder was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Internat