The Town of Babylon

A Novel

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Beschreibung

A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION<br><br>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE <br>ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Electric Literature, LGBTQ Reads, Latinx in Publishing<br><br>*Recommended by The New York Times*<br><br>In this contemporary debut novel an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends.<br><br>Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andrés falls into old habits with friends he thought he d left behind. Before long, he unexpectedly becomes entangled with his first love and is forced to tend to past wounds.<br><br>Captivating and poignant; a modern coming-of-age story about the essential nature of community, The Town of Babylon is a page-turning novel about young love and a close examination of our social systems and the toll they take when they fail us. / Nominiert: Aspen Words Literary Prize, 2023.Nominiert: Latino Book Award, 2022.Nominiert: National Book Award Finalist, 2022.Nominiert: PEN Open Book Award, 2023

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781662601033

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

28 x 153 x 241 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Astra House