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a un paso de juárez/one step from juárez
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En a un paso de juárez Joseph Avski recuenta su vida en El Paso. En estas páginas Avski narra la transformación de su escritura como resultado del encuentro con la frontera y el descubrimiento del desierto como fuente creativa. Como trasfondo Avski relata su experiencia como inmigrante en un lugar extraviado entre dos mundos, México y Estados Unidos, y que no termina de pertenecer a ninguno de ellos.
In one step away from juárez Joseph Avski recounts his life in El Paso, Texas as a newly arrived immigrant from Colombia. In these pages Avski chronicles his transformative encounter with the Mexican/U.S. border and his discovery of the desert as a creative source. In the background Avski relates his experience in an out-of-the-way place suspended between two worlds, unable to belong to either Mexico or the United States.
En a un paso de juárez Joseph Avski recuenta su vida en El Paso. En estas páginas Avski narra la transformación de su escritura como resultado del encuentro con la frontera y el descubrimiento del desierto como fuente creativa. Como trasfondo Avski relata su experiencia como inmigrante en un lugar extraviado entre dos mundos, México y Estados Unidos, y que no termina de pertenecer a ninguno de ellos.
In one step away from juárez Joseph Avski recounts his life in El Paso, Texas as a newly arrived immigrant from Colombia. In these pages Avski chronicles his transformative encounter with the Mexican/U.S. border and his discovery of the desert as a creative source. In the background Avski relates his experience in an out-of-the-way place suspended between two worlds, unable to belong to either Mexico or the United States.
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First published March 1, 2015
About the author
Joseph Avski
16 books23 followersBorn in 1980 in Medellín, Colombia, Joseph Avski graduated with a degree in Physics from the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia) and an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Texas at El Paso. He has published poetry and short stories in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Spain, Mexico, and the USA; and has won short story contests in Colombia, Uruguay, and the USA. In 2009, he won the IX annual National Novel Award from the Medellín Chamber of Commerce with his opera prima El corazón del escorpión (Heart of Scorpio). In 2010, he was the finalist in the XII Novel Biennial “José Eustasio Rivera” with his novel El libro de los infiernos (The Book of Infernos). ). In 2015 Editorial Planeta published El infinito se acaba pronto, his most recent novel.
He currently teachers at Northwest Missouri State university.
He currently teachers at Northwest Missouri State university.
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March 13, 2015En a un paso de juárez Joseph Avski recuenta su vida en El Paso. En estas páginas Avski narra la transformación de su escritura como resultado del encuentro con la frontera y el descubrimiento del desierto como fuente creativa. Como trasfondo Avski relata su experiencia como inmigrante en un lugar extraviado entre dos mundos, México y Estados Unidos, y que no termina de pertenecer a ninguno de ellos.
In one step away from juárez Joseph Avski recounts his life in El Paso, Texas as a newly arrived immigrant from Colombia. In these pages Avski chronicles his transformative encounter with the Mexican/U.S. border and his discovery of the desert as a creative source. In the background Avski relates his experience in an out-of-the-way place suspended between two worlds, unable to belong to either Mexico or the United States.
In one step away from juárez Joseph Avski recounts his life in El Paso, Texas as a newly arrived immigrant from Colombia. In these pages Avski chronicles his transformative encounter with the Mexican/U.S. border and his discovery of the desert as a creative source. In the background Avski relates his experience in an out-of-the-way place suspended between two worlds, unable to belong to either Mexico or the United States.
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