Description
An award-winning cyberpunk novel set in mid-21st century Cuba, Freeway: La Movie crosses the absurdity of American pop culture with the deep, fragmented unease of Cuban-US relations. A novel-in-stories set in mid-twenty-first century dystopian Havana, Freeway narrates the adventure of two misfits wandering the construction site of a colossal freeway-to-be - a mysterious feat of engineering that slices through Havana, designed to connect the US and Cuba. The two embark on a futile journey, overlaid with the elusive filming of a documentary about the freeway construction. Both film quality and interior monologues drift aimlessly, haunted by Cuban history and US pop culture. Freeway: La Movie is a satirical novel that attempts to reconcile what might be hopelessly irreconcilable: the body and the machine; analog and digital; post-industrial overdevelopment and post-socialist underdevelopment; Cuba and the US; reality and fiction; the plasticity of personal identity and rigid categories such as gender, class, and nationality. Through the clash of utopian promises and dystopian realities, Freeway reveals the unease of contemporary culture from the US to Cuba.
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About the Author
Jorge Enrique is a Cuban novelist and short story writer. He is also the editor of the magazine El cuentero and the publishing house Caja China of the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center. Formerly a biochemist at the University of Havana, he quit the biosciences right after graduating with honors for pursuing a career as a writer. His stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines in Cuba and abroad. His story "Bitches" was published in McSweeney's 46: Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America and his story "Epilogo con superheroe y Fidel" appeared in the anthology Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories from the New Cuba (OR Books, 2014). Lourdes Molina teaches Spanish language and Spanish and Spanish American literature at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She received her Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in 20th-century Latin American literature and history, focusing on Cuban studies and literary translation.
Book Information
ISBN 9781646051823
Author Jorge Enrique Lage
Format Paperback
Page Count 180
Imprint Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
Serial rights targeting BOMB, n+1, Astra Quarterly, Granta, Guernica, Exchanges, Cincinnati Review, Iowa Review, and other magazines and literary journals Print and digital publicity targeting, NPR, The Atlantic, Public Books, The Rumpus, Bookforum, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Asymptote, A Public Space, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Millions, Tor, Locus Promotion at Texas Book Festival, Miami Book Fair, Brooklyn Book Festival, WordPlay, National Book Festival, Winter Institute Review copies sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request Promotion on the publisher's website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); publisher's e-newsletter to booksellers and reviewers
About the Author
Jorge Enrique is a Cuban novelist and short story writer. He is also the editor of the magazine El cuentero and the publishing house Caja China of the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center. Formerly a biochemist at the University of Havana, he quit the biosciences right after graduating with honors for pursuing a career as a writer. His stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines in Cuba and abroad. His story "Bitches" was published in McSweeney's 46: Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America and his story "Epilogo con superheroe y Fidel" appeared in the anthology Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories from the New Cuba (OR Books, 2014). Lourdes Molina teaches Spanish language and Spanish and Spanish American literature at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She received her Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in 20th-century Latin American literature and history, focusing on Cuban studies and literary translation.
Book Information
ISBN 9781646051823
Author Jorge Enrique Lage
Format Paperback
Page Count 180
Imprint Deep Vellum Publishing
Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
