by Xavier Queipo · Small Stations Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789543840885
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«Kite» is the contemporary novel by Xavier Queipo, published by Small Stations Press in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Francis, a Galician emigrant in San Rafael, meets Rose, a liberal Irishwoman, at a screening of Apocalypse Now. When he is commissioned to translate Saramago's Blindness, he is diagnosed with the onset of blindness and their relationship falters. The novel portrays emigrants caught between their traditional upbringing and permissive American society.
English translation by Kirsty Hooper of the original novel Papaventos (2005). Volume 16 of the Small Stations Fiction series.
For readers of literary fiction interested in emigration, cultural heritage, and LGBTQ+ relationships.
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