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03164aam a2200529 i 4500 001 18ED29EE253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 210917t20222022nyuab 000 f eng 010 $a 2021046010 020 $a 0811231577 020 $a 9780811231572 035 $a (OCoLC)1268544636 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d SO$ $d OCLCO $d YDX $d FSP $d OCLCO $d MTG $d OCL $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 042 $a pcc 043 $a s-cl--- 050 00 $a PQ8097.Y2 $b A9413 2022 082 00 $a 863/.62 $b E531y $2 23 100 1 $a Emar, Juan, $d 1893-1964, $e author. 240 10 $a Ayer. $l English 245 10 $a Yesterday / $c Juan Emar ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell ; with a foreword by Alejandro Zambra. 264 1 $a New York : $b New Directions Publishing, $c 2022. 300 $a x, 107 pages : $b illustration, map ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a New Directions paperbook ; $v 1526 520 $a "In the city of San AgustiÌn de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a man, while urinating, goes bungee jumping through time itself-and manages to escape. Or does he? Witness the weird machinery of Yesterday, where the Chilean master Juan Emar deploys irony, digression, and giddy repetitions to ratchet up narrative tension again and again and again, in this thrilling whirlwind of the ecstatically unexpected-all wed to the happiest marriage of any novel, ever. Born in Chile at the tail end of the nineteenth century, Juan Emar was largely overlooked during his lifetime, and lived in self-imposed exile from the literary circles of his day. A cult of Emarians, however, always persisted, and after several rediscoveries in the Spanish-speaking world, he is finally getting his international due with the English-language debut of Yesterday, deftly translated by Megan McDowell. Emar's work offers unique and delirious pleasures, and will be an epiphany to anglophone readers."-- $c Provided by publisher. 546 $a Text in English translated from Spanish. 650 0 $a Spouses $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Lingering $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Curiosities and wonders $v Fiction. 650 0 $a City and town life $z Chile $v Fiction. 650 7 $a City and town life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862081 650 7 $a Curiosities and wonders. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00885285 650 7 $a Lingering. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst02024087 650 7 $a Spouses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01130842 651 7 $a Chile. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205362 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 2 $a Fictional Work $0 (DNLM)D022922 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 700 1 $a McDowell, Megan, $e translator. 700 1 $a Zambra, Alejandro, $d 1975- $e writer of foreword. 830 0 $a New Directions paperbook ; $v 1526. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025034.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=18ED29EE253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search