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Texas: The Great Theft: 10th Anniversary edition

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By (author): Carmen Boullosa

Translated by: Samantha Schnee

A contemporary classic from award-winning author Carmen Boullosa, in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges and César Aira, now available in a special 10th anniversary edition.

Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Texas: The Great Theft is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex borderland. Boullosa views border history through a new lens decentering US narratives, and her sympathetic portrayal of each of her wildly diverse charactersMexican ranchers and Texas Rangers, Comanches and cowboys, German socialists and runaway slaves, Southern belles and dancehall girlsmakes her storytelling tremendously powerful and absorbing.

Featuring a new introduction by a prominent writer, the Tenth Anniversary edition of Texas sheds important historical light on current battles over the MexicanAmerican frontier while telling a gripping story with Boullosa's singular prose and formal innovation.

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Will deliver when available. Publication date 16 Jan 2025

Product Details
  • Dimensions: 133 x 209mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781646053537

About Carmen Boullosa

Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's leading novelists poets and playwrights. She has published over a dozen novels several of which have been published by Deep Vellum in English translation. Boullosa has received numerous prizes and honors including a Guggenheim fellowship. Also a poet playwright essayist and cultural critic Boullosa is a Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York and her books have been translated into Italian Dutch German French Portuguese Chinese and Russian. Other novels translated into English include Before (tr. Peter Bush Deep Vellum 2016) Heavens On Earth (tr. Shelby Vincent Deep Vellum 2017) The Book of Anna (tr. Samantha Schnee Coffee House Press 2020) and The Book of Eve (tr. Samantha Schnee Deep Vellum 2023). Samantha Schnee is the founding editor of Words Without Borders. Her translation of Boullosa's Texas: The Great Theft was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize. She lives in Houston Texas.

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