A Floating Forest
by Jorge F. Hernández
Description
The narrator dives into the childhood he lived in Mantua, a forest near to Washington D.C. Chronicle of memories that ignited the low recovery of his mother’s memory; May begins to remember some words that are names, the order of things, the disorder, things left to chance … the trees of a forest. The narrator’s childhood is the passage to recover his mother’s past and the novel weaves these fragments like someone spins syllables over the snow of blank pages. Jorge F. Hernandez recreates the first fifteen years of his bilingual biography amid a forest that has remained intact in a shared memory and where the reader is suspended in the presence of the terrible enigma of Evil, of the worst side of North American utopia, which is only alleviated by the affections that last forever … and that do not deserve to be forgotten.
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Reviews
“The literature of Jorge F. Hernández has a lot of autobiographical. Not because his life is in the stories, but because it feeds on a personal and a collective memory when it approaches to favorable territories to show its ghosts, obsessions, or desires. A story about memory which also emanates from oblivion is what can be found in Un bosque flotante.”
Jesús Alejo Santiago / Milenio
“Un bosque flotante is more than a book of memories; it is also about the battle against oblivion, the recovery of remembrances, not just your own, but of others.”
Adriana Hernández Morales / Periodismo Hoy
Author Biography
Narrator and essayist. He is a candidate for the Doctorate in History from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been a professor at UNAM, ITAM, Anáhuac University and the Hellenic Cultural Center. He hosted the radio program “Accents” (along with Phillipe Ollé-Laprune and Fabrizio Mejía-Madrid) on Opus 94.5 FM. His novel La Emperatriz de Lavapiés (Alfaguara, 1999) was a finalist of the First Alfaguara International Award 1997.
As a storyteller, he published En las nubes (El Equilibrista / CNCA 1997), and in 2000 he won the National Short Story Award Efrén Hernández with “Noche de ronda”, included in his second book of stories Escenarios del sueño (CNCA, 2005).
As an essayist, he has written Réquiem taurino (Aldus, 1998) and Antología de entrevistas con Carlos Fuentes (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999) translated into French by Gallimard in 2005, among others.
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- Publisher/Imprint Penguin Ramdon House / Alfagura
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9786073198981 / 6073198981
- Publication Country or regionMexico
- FormatPaperback
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleUn bosque flotante
- Original Language AuthorsSpanish
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2021
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