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03236aam a2200469Ii 4500 001 3D25FD8ADB9811EAAFE110FF96128E48 003 SILO 005 20200811010110 008 200420s2020 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0374216304 020 $a 9780374216306 035 $a (OCoLC)1152981098 040 $a TOH $b eng $c TOH $d TP7 $d OCLCF $d JED $d FNN $d HBP $d TCH $d SILO 082 04 $a 863/.7 $2 23 100 1 $a Fonseca, Carlos, $d 1987- $e author. 240 10 $a Museo animal $l English. 245 10 $a Natural history / $c Carlos Fonseca ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $c [2020] 300 $a 303 pages ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Originally published in the Spanish in 2017 by Anagrama, Spain, as Museo animal. 520 $a "Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom -- with camouflage and subterfuge -- and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision. Seven years later, after the death of the designer, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. During a long night of insomnia, he finds within the archive a series of clues to the true story of the designer's family, a mind-bending puzzle that winds from Haifa, Israel, to bohemian 1970s New York to the Latin American jungle. On the way, he discovers a cast of characters whose own fixations interrogate the unstable frontiers between art, science, politics, and religion: an aging photographer, living nearly alone in an abandoned mining town where subterranean fires rage without end, who creates models of ruined cities; a former model turned conceptual artist -- and a defendant in a trial over the very nature and purpose of art; a young indigenous boy who has received a vision of the end of the world. Reality is a curtain, as the curator realizes, and to draw it back is to reveal the theater of obsession. Natural History is the portrait of a world trapped between faith and irony, between tragedy and farce." -- $c Provided by publisher 650 0 $a Museum exhibits $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Museum curators $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Hispanic & Latino. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Museum curators. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030074 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a McDowell, Megan, $e translator. 941 $a 9 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409035248.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909061740.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105040110.0 952 $l VSPC034 $d 20201024010140.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20201006010209.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201002012309.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20201002011834.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200820010030.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20200812034120.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D25FD8ADB9811EAAFE110FF96128E48 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search