Sideways Glance - Vega Serova, Anna Lidia

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Résumé :
Objects exist to serve us, to make our lives more comfortable, warmer. Objects accompany us from birth to our final breath. They surround us, we choose them and they choose us. We look after them, and they look after us. Objects have their own stories, and they tell ours. Every object that we own (or that owns us), however insignificant, bears our mark, and a deep, invisible connection joins us. It is out of this that Sideways Glance comes. This is a book about the most everyday of objects. Anna Lidia Vega Serova brings together the fragments of a life, outlines that become confessions or discoveries. Here she presents a vision of the surrounding world through the briefest of glances - playing, always playing. Sideways Glance is a collection of vignettes (illustrated by the author herself), which - like a mosaic, like a musical fusion, like the life of a person or a nation - have been broken and pieced back together over and over again. Originally published in Spanish as Mirada de reojo (Ediciones Uni?n 2010), the stories have been translated into English by Annery Rivera Velasco and Jonathan Curry-Machado.

Biographie:
Born in the former Soviet Union, to a Russian/Ukrainian mother and Cuban father, Anna Lidia settled definitively in Havana, Cuba, in 1989. Originally a visual artist, it was her writing that brought her to international prominence, starting with her winning the Premio David in 1997 for her first collection of short stories, 'Bad Painting'. Since then she has become a recognised figure in the Cuban literary scene, with eight short-story collections and two novels ('Noche de Ronda' and 'Anima Fatua') to her name, participating in literary events throughout Europe and the Americas. She has also previously published three books of poetry: 'Retazos (de las hormigas) para los malos tiempos', 'Eslabones de un tiempo muerto' and 'Un jardin en miniatura' (a bilingual Spanish/English edition of which has recently also published by Amaurea Press). Through both her words and her painting, her work is noteworthy for its very personal reflection of daily life, grindingly yet magically real, as experienced in present-day Cuba.

Sommaire:
Born in the former Soviet Union, to a Russian/Ukrainian mother and Cuban father, Anna Lidia settled definitively in Havana, Cuba, in 1989. Originally a visual artist, it was her writing that brought her to international prominence, starting with her winning the Premio David in 1997 for her first collection of short stories, 'Bad Painting'. Since then she has become a recognised figure in the Cuban literary scene, with eight short-story collections and two novels ('Noche de Ronda' and 'Anima Fatua') to her name, participating in literary events throughout Europe and the Americas. She has also previously published three books of poetry: 'Retazos (de las hormigas) para los malos tiempos', 'Eslabones de un tiempo muerto' and 'Un jardin en miniatura' (a bilingual Spanish/English edition of which has recently also published by Amaurea Press). Through both her words and her painting, her work is noteworthy for its very personal reflection of daily life, grindingly yet magically real, as experienced in present-day Cuba....