The Voices of Adriana
by Elvira Navarro
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Pub Date Feb 18 2025 | Archive Date Mar 15 2025
Description
A thrilling metafiction about grief, the internet, and the difficulty of knowing others, The Voices of Adriana combines the psychological acuity of Marguerite Duras with the creative possibility of One Thousand and One Nights.
Adriana has become obsessed with her father’s online dating. Recently widowed, he’s on a self-destructive, manic search for a partner to accompany him through his twilight years. At the same time, her life as an isolated grad student feels unreal, and to fill the void of her mother’s death, Adriana begins writing, trying on different voices. She builds worlds from the online profiles of her father’s latest flings, that is until more fundamental voices—those of her grandmother and mother—begin calling out to her in the night.The Voices of Adriana, the latest from Spanish writer Elvira Navarro, is an innovative novel about grief and how we might reanimate the voices of those we’ve lost, not as ghosts, but as living parts of ourselves.
Advance Praise
Winner of the 2023 Cálamo Special Prize
“A relentless novel about the loss of lightness, about what to do with—or how to measure—the weight that remains. Brutally honest yet mysteriously elusive, with scalpel-like precision and poetic sharpness, Elvira Navarro explores the dialectic of care, its vulnerabilities and its legacies.”
—Andrés Neuman, author of Traveler of the Century
“The Voices of Adriana is an extraordinary novel, in which a woman speaks to us from her ancestral tempest…Loneliness and family, the search for love, and a resurfacing past all intertwine in this extraordinary story that oscillates between social criticism and an exploration of the primitive forces of existence. Elvira Navarro is one of the greatest Spanish writers of today. A precise and meticulous surgeon of the heart’s most hidden emotions.”
—Manuel Vilas, author of Ordesa
“This author’s literary talent is a natural gift…the subtle, almost hidden, true avant-gardist of her generation.”
—Enrique Vila-Matas, author of Mac’s Problem
“Navarro, a Spanish writer, deploys surrealism to comic, haunting effect.”
—The New York Times
“[Navarro] is a master anatomist of class and, particularly, money—both its power and the maddening indignity of its lack.”
—Los Angeles Times
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781949641738 |
| PRICE | $17.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 178 |
