Research Catalog
Blue flowers
- Title
- Blue flowers / Carola Saavedra ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
- Author
- Saavedra, Carola, 1973-
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead books, 2020.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-3672 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hahn, Daniel
- Description
- 201 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believes she is writing to the former tenant, her ex-lover, in the aftermath of a violent heartbreak. Marcos falls under the spell of the manic, hypnotic missives and for the first time in years, something moves him. Blue Flowers alternates between the letters detailing the dissolution of A.'s relationship, and Marcos' growing fixation with this damaged person. The letters become a kind of exorcism as both A.'s epistolary affair and Marcos' personal life reach a crisis point. Possessed by A., he is driven to discover her true identity. Blue Flowers is a dark portrait of desire, undermining accepted truths about love and sex, violence and fear, men and women." --
- Uniform Title
- Flores azuis. English
- Alternative Title
- Flores azuis.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Epistolary fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- Originally published in Portuguese in 2008 by Companhia das Letras, Brazil, as "Flores azuis"
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-3672
- ISBN
- 9781594631757
- 1594631751
- 9780593187609
- 0593187601
- 9781101624029 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019013028
- 40029703869
- OCLC
- 1096236243
- Author
- Saavedra, Carola, 1973- author.
- Title
- Blue flowers / Carola Saavedra ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
- Publisher
- New York : Riverhead books, 2020.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Translated from the Portuguese.
- Added Author
- Hahn, Daniel, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Saavedra, Carola, 1973- author. Blue flowers New York : Riverhead books, 2020 9781101624029 (DLC) 2019016797
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029703869
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-3672