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02682aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 CA0A84A6DEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210707010029 008 210519t20212021mnu 000 f eng d 010 $a 2020944192 020 $a 1644450550 020 $a 9781644450550 035 $a (OCoLC)1251834467 040 $a NZAUC $b eng $e rda $c NZAUC $d IH9 $d YDX $d BDX $d TOH $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UAB $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h spa 050 4 $a PQ8098.23 E74 S5713 2021 100 1 $a Meruane, Lina, $d 1970- $e author. 240 10 $a Sistema nervioso. $l English 245 10 $a Nervous system : $b a novel / $c Lina Meruane ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell. 264 1 $a Minneapolis, Minnesota : $b Graywolf Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 225 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Originally published in 2018 as Sistema nervioso."--Title page verso. 520 $a "Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the country of the present but she is from the country of the past, a place burdened in her memory by both personal and political tragedies. Her partner, El, is a forensic scientist who analyzes the bones of victims of state violence and is recovering from an explosion at a work site that almost killed him. Consumed by writer's block, Ella finds herself wishing that she would become ill, which would provide time for writing and perhaps an excuse for her lack of progress. Then she begins to experience mysterious symptoms that doctors find undiagnosable. As Ella's anxiety grows, the past begins to exert a strong gravitational pull, and other members of her family come into focus: the widowed Father, the Stepmother, the Twins, and the Firstborn. Each of them has their own experience of illness and violence, and eventually the systems that both hold them together and atomize them are exposed. Lina Meruane's Nervous System is an extraordinary clinical biography of a family, full of affection and resentment, dark humor and buried secrets, in which illness describes the traumas that can be visited not just upon the body, but on families and on the history of the countries--present and past--that we live in."--Provided by publisher. 546 $a Translated from the Spanish. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Astrophysicists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Graduate students $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Forensic scientists $v Fiction. 700 1 $a McDowell, Megan, $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014340.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220202014901.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210803014609.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CA0A84A6DEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search