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ISBN-10: 1911508601
ISBN-13: 9781911508601
Publisher: And Other Stories
Publish Date: 03/03/2020
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 5.00" W, 0.70" H

Made in Saturn

Translator: Sydney Hutchinson

Paperback

Price: $15.95

Overview

These are the children of revolutions, and this is their story. This is the Caribbean. This is Argenis Luna: an artist who no longer paints, a heroin addict who no longer uses, and an overgrown child trying to make sense of his inheritance in a country where his once-revolutionary father is now part of the ruling elite. Thrown out of rehab in Havana, with Goya’s tyrannical god Saturn on his mind, Argenis picks his way through the detritus of an abandoned generation: the drag queens, artists, hustlers and lovers trying to build lives amidst the wreckage.
Mesmerising and visionary, Made in Saturn is a hangover from a riotous funeral, a rapid-fire elegy for the revolutionary spirit, and a glimpse of hope for all who feel eclipsed by those who came before them.

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Reviews

"Rita Indiana's voice is lyrical and transgressive, attractive and original. Siren songs, her books' irresistible force captivates readers from their first lines and doesn't let them go. Made in Saturn is a wonderful, absorbing read, and both classic and modern."–El Cultural

"Ovid told the story of the god Saturn who, for fear of being dethroned, ended up devouring his children. Many centuries later, Francisco de Goya painted the scene in one of his most emblematic works. And, now, Rita Indiana has borrowed, once again, the myth, to revisit it in fiction. In her latest novel, the deity appears to be the very revolution that aimed to bring freedom to Latin America and failed in the attempt, leaving multiple and abandoned children around her. Offspring like Argenis–protagonist of the story with which Indiana, one of the most talented voices of current Caribbean literature–portrays that lost generation that continues to struggle so as not to be devoured."–ABC

"Rita Indiana...is a voice with power and personality. She demonstrates it in her latest novel Made in Saturn, in which the children of all the revolutions that promised a free Latin America but ended in failure are embodied in Argenis, a character as real as he is magical." –UDL Libros

"Over time some authors turn into only an "expectation", something that could have been, little more. Rita Indiana, with Tentacle, already showed that she could fulfill the promises made in Papi. Would it be possible to go further? How far would her narrative power go? Made in Saturn is the answer to these questions, and it is not only a book that's new, like all of Indiana's works, but it is a book that is, in a strict sense, good. Very good. Modernist . . . as well as classic. A Duchampian Goya, we might say, if it wouldn't be scandalous to some. Perhaps it's better not to describe it, but to leave it in the hands of readers. This is the story of the children of the revolution, of many revolutions. [...] Argenis Luna, the protagonist of this novel, is both a mythological figure and a pariah on Earth. After living with him for ten pages we understand and love him. His contradictions are our own. He will live beside us forever." –El Pais

"Each of her novels is marked by a concept; each is part of something larger. Made in Saturn, for example, is positioned as complement to Tentacle, and the author has announced that there will be a new novel to complete the trilogy. What unites these books is the critique of power. It is a contemporary and rebellious art, ready to fight." –El Tiempo

"Compared to Tentacle, which drew on science fiction and were you could sense the influence of Lovecraft, Made in Saturn practises a kind of scathing hyperrealism in a Caribbean setting weighed down with corruption, ideological ruin and outrageous consumption." –Revista de Letras

"Through her stark portrait of the protagonist and her unmistakably Caribbean prose, Rita Indiana shows why she is one of the most attractive voices in Latin American literature today." –Sin Embargo

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Details

ISBN-10: 1911508601
ISBN-13: 9781911508601
Publisher: And Other Stories
Publish Date: 03/03/2020
Dimensions: 7.70" L, 5.00" W, 0.70" H
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