Anna Lidia vega serova
“It is ridiculous to cling to any object, any being, any fact, any goal.”
This is a book about the most everyday of objects. Anna Lidia Vega Serova brings together the fragments of a life, outlines that become confessions or discoveries. Here she presents a vision of the surrounding world through the briefest of glances – playing, always playing.
Sideways Glance is a collection of vignettes (illustrated by the author herself) which – like a mosaic, like a musical fusion, like the life of a person or a nation – have been broken and pieced back together over and over again. Translated into English from the original Spanish by Annery Rivera Velasco and Jonathan Curry-Machado.
Anna Lidia Vega Serova
Born in the former Soviet Union, to a Russian/Ukrainian mother and Cuban father, Anna Lidia Vega Serova settled definitively in Havana, Cuba in 1989. Originally a visual artist, it was her writing that brought her to international prominence, starting with her winning the Premio David in 1997 for her first collection of short stories, Bad Painting. Since then, she has become a recognised figure in the Cuban literary scene, with eight short-story collections and two novels (Noche de Ronda and Anima Fatua) to her name, participating in literary events throughout Europe and the Americas. She has also previously published three books of poetry: Retazos (de las hormigas) para los malos tiempos, Eslabones de un tiempo muerto and Un jardin en miniatura. Through both her words and her painting, her work is noteworthy for its very personal reflection of daily life, grindingly yet magically real, as experienced in present-day Cuba.
ISBN 978-1-914278-02-0, paperback 124pp. with B&W drawings.
£9.95 / €12.95 / $14.95
“The evocative power of objects arouses in this book… the autobiographical associations of a writer who explodes the conventions of the short story.”
(Marilyn Bobes)
“This is not a traditional book of stories…. but a collection of literary prints, in which the author assembles and disassembles much that happens in everyday life, while touching the deepest of emotions.”
(Marta Rojas)
“Anna Lidia Vega Serova is one of the most provocative voices of the current Cuban literary scene.”
(Paloma Jiménez del Campo)
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