Requiem with Yellow Butterflies Requiem with Yellow Butterflies

Requiem with Yellow Butterflies

A Memoir

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Publisher Description

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 María 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.

GENRE
Biography
RELEASED
2019
1 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
266
Pages
PUBLISHER
UWA Publishing
SIZE
735.1
KB