Hiroshima by John Hersey

Hiroshima by John Hersey

The stories of Juan Jos� Mill�s, who began writing in the 1970s, depart from both the socially engaged, traditional realism and the linguistic experimentation of post-Francoist Spain. They are populated by strange characters: a man who discovers a passage that connects all the armoires on earth, a woman who finds her obsessions to be better company than her cats, a vacationer who prefers his pancreas to the Bahamas as a destination. Influenced by both Gabriel Garc�a Marqu�z and Franz Kafka and resonant with Freudian concepts, Mill�s's fiction�ironic, humorous, dreamlike�raises questions about identity, society, and what is normal.

In her introduction, Pepa Anastasio places Mill�s in the context of modern Spain and provides commentary on the style and themes of a contemporary writer little of whose work has yet appeared in English translation.

John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis's secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947 he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and Chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.

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ISBN 13	9780679721031
ISBN 10	0679721037
Title	Hiroshima
Author	John Hersey
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Binding type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1989-03-04
Number of pages	160
Prizes	Winner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.
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