The Apartment on Calle Uruguay
[S.I.] : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2022.
Format: Eaudiobook
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A haunting new novel by the author of Vengeance in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a complicated romance that reveals their buried histories and vulnerabilities against the backdrops of an America in chaos and Mexico. Beginning in the first summer of the post-Obama world, Zachary Lazar's bewitching and masterful new novel tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York. Bell has always felt marked by his foreignness, having emigrated to the U.S. as a child, and has come to believe that "words like 'identity' and 'American' are somehow very meaningful and very meaningless at the same time.” He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods, “a rural nowhere?that sometimes held more meaning for me in its silence than human language.”? ? In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to “reinvent herself as the kind of person she?d been before” the world she knew disappeared.? A complicated romance develops that gradually reveals their buried histories?from the death of Bell?s former partner, Malika Jordan, a fellow artist, to the prison farm where he visits Malika?s incarcerated brother Jesse, to Mexico City, where Ana?s exiled family now lives. All of them have faced the same problem: how to build a new life once the idea you've had of "home" vanishes or becomes unrecognizable. ? The Apartment on Calle Uruguay is a haunting exploration of love, art, and the cost of transformation. It lays out a fiercely intentional and introspective way of living in an unjust world.
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9780593612484
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