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Punctured Diary
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Expected 3 Aug 27Two intimate, perceptive novellas about learning to see anew from a fresh voice in Latin American fiction
In Punctured Diary, Mercedes Halfon finely crafts two stories, each following a woman as she navigates a personal crisis and attempts to reorient herself, both physically and psychologically, in a changing world. The title novella is told through the journal entries of a young Argentine writer who follows her lover to Berlin—and through a summer of discontent—finding herself only after she’s been abandoned in the foreign city. In the second novella, a woman with a hereditary eye condition faces her fear of going blind as she cares for her aging mother, discovers she’s pregnant, and reflects on the work of doctors, inventors, philosophers, and artists whose own struggles with sight made them visionaries.
Journeying through the mind and the quotidian, Halfon illuminates the human urge to find new ways of seeing that can shift and shape the narratives of our lives.
In Punctured Diary, Mercedes Halfon finely crafts two stories, each following a woman as she navigates a personal crisis and attempts to reorient herself, both physically and psychologically, in a changing world. The title novella is told through the journal entries of a young Argentine writer who follows her lover to Berlin—and through a summer of discontent—finding herself only after she’s been abandoned in the foreign city. In the second novella, a woman with a hereditary eye condition faces her fear of going blind as she cares for her aging mother, discovers she’s pregnant, and reflects on the work of doctors, inventors, philosophers, and artists whose own struggles with sight made them visionaries.
Journeying through the mind and the quotidian, Halfon illuminates the human urge to find new ways of seeing that can shift and shape the narratives of our lives.
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Expected publication August 3, 2027
About the author
Mercedes Halfon
16 books61 followersMercedes Halfon nació en Buenos Aires en 1980. Es periodista y crítica de teatro.
Participó como actriz y asistente de dirección en algunas obras teatrales.
Actualmente escribe en el suplemento Radar de Página/12, en la revista Etiqueta negra de Perú, y en Teatro del Teatro San Martín.
Publicó la novela Te pido un taxi, por editorial Sudamericana, y las plaquetas Dormir con lo puesto por Zorra Poesía, Un paisaje que nunca vi por Color Pastel. Integra la antología de poesía argentina contemporánea Lo humanamente posible, editada por El fin de la noche.
En 2009 ganó el Premio Estímulo de Tea al periodismo gráfico.
Participó como actriz y asistente de dirección en algunas obras teatrales.
Actualmente escribe en el suplemento Radar de Página/12, en la revista Etiqueta negra de Perú, y en Teatro del Teatro San Martín.
Publicó la novela Te pido un taxi, por editorial Sudamericana, y las plaquetas Dormir con lo puesto por Zorra Poesía, Un paisaje que nunca vi por Color Pastel. Integra la antología de poesía argentina contemporánea Lo humanamente posible, editada por El fin de la noche.
En 2009 ganó el Premio Estímulo de Tea al periodismo gráfico.
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