by Jorge Volpi · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420470566
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«No será la Tierra» is the novel by Jorge Volpi, published by Alfaguara in paperback (528 pages, in Spanish).
Three women —a Soviet biologist facing the fall of communism, an IMF official, and a computer scientist studying intelligence— see their lives intersect with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the coup against Gorbachev, and the Human Genome Project. Volpi weaves scientific narrative and detective fable to portray human greed and passion.
Third installment of Jorge Volpi's «Trilogía del siglo XX», after «En busca de Klingsor» and «El fin de la locura». Published in the Hispánica collection of Alfaguara.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, with an interest in the end of the 20th century and novels with female protagonists.
Jorge Volpi is a Mexican novelist and essayist, best known for his novels such as In Search of Klingsor . Trained as a lawyer, he gained notice in the 1990s with his first publications and participation in the pronouncement of the "Crack Manifesto" with several other young writers to protest the state of Mexican literature and promote their own work. Volpi's novels are distinct from magical realism and other trends of Latin American literature as they focus on the actions of characters and research into academic topics, especially history and science, and do not always focus on Latin American characters and settings. His work has been translated into twenty five languages and recognized with awards such as Biblioteca Breva Award and the Debate-Casa de América as well as a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. In addition to his writing he has worked as a cultural attaché, the director of Canal 22 in the State of Mexico and is currently the director of the Festival Internacional Cervantino.
