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A Question Of Belonging: Crnicas,New
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Sets the coordinates for a wisdom of her own. Alejandra Costamagna25 Crnicas uniquely Latin American short stories from a master of the form, a star heralded alongside Samanta Schweblin and Mariana Enrquez for blending insight, honesty, and humorUhart reinvigorates our desire to connect with other people, to love the world, to laugh in the face of bad intentions, and to look again, more closely: from lapwings, roadside pedicures, and the overheard conversations of nurses and their patients, to Goethe and the work of the Bolivian director Jorge Sanjins.It was a year of great discovery for me, learning about these people and their homes, Hebe Uhart writes in the opening story of A Question of Belonging, a collection of texts that traverse Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Spain, and beyond. Discoveries sprout and flower throughout Uharts oeuvre, but nowhere more so than in her crnicas, Uharts preferred method of storytelling by the end of her life. For Uhart, the crnica meant going outside, meeting others. It also allowed the mingling of precise, factual reportage and the slanted, symbolic narrative power of literature.Here, Uhart opens the door on all kinds of people. We meet an eccentric priest who conducts experiments down by the riverside hoping to land on a cure for cancer; a queenly (read: beautiful and relentlessly indolent) teenage girl; a cacique of the Pueblo Nacin Charra clan, who tells her of indigenous customs and histories.She writes with characteristic slyness. In the last lines of the title story, Uhart writes, And I left, whistling softly. Wherever she may have gone, we are left with the wish we could follow alongside.
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