Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Foam
by Carlos Labbé
Description
Foam is a long novel with a multitude of voices, which is also economical and metaphysical, about immigrants from different levels and origins in New York. It traverses from the years of presidents Obama and Trump until Black Lives Matter, the pandemic and the current attempts for reconstruction. Its reflexivity, eroticism, humor and hard action, framed in the musical structure of a Latin American “cantata”, bonds a profound memorial of the voices of missing people and survivors from the crisis of the last, hyper politicized, decade.
This novel follows the stories of six characters that converge in a free concert during a crucial day in the Summer of 2021 Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The story bounces back and forth, rythmicall, from a Chinese systems analyst, to a Latina academic, to an activist reggaetonero, to a South American writer, to an indigineous chef, to an African American beach cleaner: the plethora of the American melting pot.
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- Groundbreaking and disruptive, Foam is a tasty challenge for the most demanding literary palates. Those who have read and liked Mauro Javier Cardenas or Danielle Dutton, will be prepared to read Carlos Labbé and allow themselves to be invited to a new kind of dance.
Author Biography
Carlos is a world-renowned author who has been recognized for his groundbreaking, timeless and addictive writing.
Born in Santiago de Chile in 1977, he is the author of the hypernovel Pentagonal: incluidos tú y yo (2001), as well as the novels Libro de plumas (2004), Navidad y Matanza (2007, which has been translated into English and German), Locuela (2009, translated into English and Turkish), Piezas secretas contra el mundo (2014), La parvá (2015), Coreografías espirituales (2017, translated into English) and Viaje a Partagua (2021), as well as the short fiction collections Caracteres blancos (2010) y Cortas las pesadillas con alebrijes (2017) and the essay Por una pluralidad literaria chilena: el colectivo Juan Emar (1923-hoy).
He is a former member of the musical bands Ex Fiesta and Tornasólidos, and has released the following solo albums: Doce canciones para Eleodora (2007), Monicacofonía (2008), Mi nuevo órgano (2011), Repeticiones para romper el cerco (2013) and Ofri Afro (2018).
He is also the co-author of two feature films: Malta con huevo (2007) and El nombre (2016).
He earned a B.A. and a M.A. in Literature and is a critic, editor and translator, as well as a member of Sangría, a Chile-New York writers collective.
In 2010, Grant listed him as one of 22 emerging Spanish language writers under the age of 35.
La parvá has recently been published in English as The Murmuration by Open Letter Books. Foam is his latest novel.
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- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- Pages318
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleLibro de Espuma
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