Sergio De La Pava
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Propulsive . . . The novel's chaotic sprawl, black humor and madcap digressions make it a thrilling rejoinder to the tidy story arcs [of] most crime fiction." -The Wall Street Journal
Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Best Debut Novel
Named a Best Book of the Year in the Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, and Philadelphia City Paper
A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, born to Colombian immigrants, who lives in Brooklyn...
Author
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
Description
From PEN Award—winning author Sergio de la Pava comes an existential detective novel about a private investigator who flees New York City for Columbia after a personal tragedy and finds himself entangled in a young woman's strange disappearance-which may be connected to one of the world's most ruthless criminal organizations.
Riv-poet, philosopher, private eye-arrives in Cali, Colombia, hoping to find nothing. Running away from his family and an...
Author
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Personae is not an easy read . . . But as a meditation on literature, it is playful, ambitious, and full of imagination, a 21st-century novel-of-some-kind." -Daily Beast
Sergio De La Pava's A Naked Singularity was one of the most highly praised debut novels in decades. The Wall Street Journal called it "a propulsive, mind-bending experience," and named it one of the ten best books of the year.
This book is nothing like that one. Just look...
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case.
On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman,...
On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman,...