{"product_id":"mourning-9781942658443","title":"Mourning","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Latino Book Award Winner\u003cbr\u003eEdward Lewis Wallant Award Winner\u003cbr\u003eKirkus Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003eNeustadt International Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003eBalcones Fiction Prize Finalist\u003cbr\u003ePEN Translation Prize Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A feat of literary acrobatics.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMourning\u003c\/i\u003e, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father's Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salom n. But what, or who, really killed Salom n? As he goes deeper, he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMourning\u003c\/i\u003e is a subtle and stirring reflection on the formative and destructive power of family mythology, silence, and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEduardo Halfon\u003c\/b\u003e moved from Guatemala to the United States at the age of ten and attended school in South Florida and North Carolina. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roger Caillois Prize, Jos  Mar a de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, and Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, he is the author of two previous novels published in English: \u003ci\u003eThe Polish Boxer\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice selection and \u003ci\u003eMonastery\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942658443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2018 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2018 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eduardo Halfon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671742410908,"sku":"9781942658443","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1d0e8d2d-e1fd-4f63-b20c-479c9fbac2e9.jpg?v=1603926145","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mourning-9781942658443","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}