Papi: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (916 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022624489X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars Rachel Babruskinas Excellent!
“Papi’s there, around any corner,” says the eight-year-old girl at the heart of Papi. Expertly translated into English for the first time by Achy Obejas, who renders the rhythmic lyricism of Indiana’s Dominican Spanish in language that propels the book forward with the relentless beat of a merengue, Papi is furious, musical, and full of wit—a passionate, overwhelming, and very human explosion of artistic virtuosity. “But you can’t sit down and wait for him cuz that’s a longer and more painful death.” Living in Santo Domingo, she waits for her father to come back from the United States and lavish her with the glorious rewards of his fame and fortune—shiny new cars and polo shirts, gold chains and Nikes. Drawing on her memories of a childhood split between Santo Domingo and visits with her father amid the luxuries of the United States, Rita Indiana mixes satire with a child’s imagination, horror with science fiction, in a swirling tale of a daughter’s love, the lure of crime and machismo, and the violence of the adult world. But when Papi does come back, he turns out to be more “like Jason, the guy from Friday the 13th," tha
Told from the perspective of an unnamed 8-year-old girl whose penchant for hyperbole betrays a tenuous grasp on reality, Indiana pulls from her own childhood split between Santo Domingo and the U.S. From Publishers Weekly Indiana's genre-defying novel, her first translated into English, captures the intensity of a growing up with a drug lord for a father. The novel dives heavily into surreal aspects of her childhood—such as the narrator and Papi shooting ducks from a car doing doughnuts at 200 miles per hour—while taking the occasional breath to ground itself with more concrete details of life growing up in the Dominican Republic. (Apr.)\n . The prose reverberates with energy; Indiana—who is a musician as well as a writerâ&eur