This Song Will Save Your Life
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This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
Poetry. Latin American Studies. Translated from the Spanish by William Rowe. INRI responds to the need to find a language for an event that was kept hidden and excluded from official records in Chile: the fact that the bodies of the disappeared were thrown out of helicopters into the mouths of volcanoes and into the sea. In order to bring this event, that was neither seen nor heard, into language, Zurita invents a form and language capable of bringing it into the present. The one place where these unspeakable acts might be registered is in the landscape of Chile: the mountains, desert, and sea. There the event might begin to be touched, heard, and finally seen. When there are no places from which to speak, the stones cry out.Leila Sales is the author of the novels Mostly Good Girls, Past Perfect, and This Song Will Save Your Life. She grew up outside of Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Chicago. Much like the characters in This Song Will Save Your Life, Leila regularly stays up too late and listens to music too loud. When she's not writing, she spends her time thinking about sleeping, kittens, chocolate, and the meaning of life. But mostly chocolate. Leila lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York, and works in children's book publishing. Follow her @LeilaSalesBooks on Twitter.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374351380 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374351384 |
| Title | This Song Will Save Your Life |
| Author | Leila Sales |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Farrar Straus Giroux |
| Year published | 2013-09-17 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Prizes | Commended for Tayshas Reading 2014, Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Fourteen and Up) 2014, Short-listed for Nutmeg Book Award (High School) 2016, Short-listed for Rhode Island Teen Book Award 2015, Short-listed for Sequoyah Book Awards (Intermediate) 2016 |
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