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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Requiem with Yellow Butterflies
Author: HALFORD JAMES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2019
Imprint: UNI OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
An Australian writer and a Mexican scientist fall in love reading great Latin American books aloud. But it takes a decade of journeys across the region, together and apart, for them to learn to read each other.
Requiem with Yellow Butterflies is a love story and travel memoir that unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of Latin America in the 2000s. It takes us on a 1200-kilometre question-mark shaped loop through the newly socialist republics of the 'pink tide,' to a requiem mass for Mexico’s disappeared and eventually back to Australia.
Through evocative, unexpected pairings of southern hemisphere places and authors — Jose MarÃa Arguedas’s Andes and Judith Wright’s Cooloola coast, the Argentine pampa and the central Queensland brigalow country — the book explores distinct but parallel postcolonial literary traditions, the disordering state of love and the strangeness of coming home.
ISBN: 9781760800130
Weight: 600gr
Dimension: 208mm X 148mm