Faces in the Crowd (novel)

First edition (publ. Sexto Piso)

Faces in the Crowd is a novel by the Mexican author Valeria Luiselli in 2011 (originally under the title Los ingrávidos).^[1] Christina MacSweeney's English translation was published by Coffee House Press in 2014.

Background[]

The novel chronicles three parallel yet intersecting narrative realities.^[2] The first narrative is set in Mexico City and follows a young mother writing a memoir of her bohemian days working as a translator of Mexican poetry in Harlem as her marriage begins to fall apart.

The second narrative is set in Harlem, and follows the misadventures of a young translator who creates a deception while purporting to translate lost poems by the obscure, early 20th-century Mexican poet Gilberto Owen.^[3]

The third narrative follows Gilberto Owen, the Mexican poet, and his friend, the Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca living in Philadelphia and New York City in the 1930s.

Reception[]

The book has received acclaim for its unique reorientation of the invented spaces of language and identity.^[4][5][6] It received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.^[7]

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