Every Arc Bends Its Radian By Sergio de la Pava
Book every arc bends its radians pdf In August 2013 Sergio won PEN Robert W Bingham Award for his debut fiction A Naked Singularity From PEN Award winning author Sergio de la Pava comes an existential detective novel about a private investigator who flees New York City for Colombia after a personal tragedy and finds himself entangled in a young woman s strange disappearance which may be connected to one of the world s most ruthless criminal organizations Riv poet philosopher private eye arrives in Cali Colombia hoping to find nothing Running away from his family and an unspeakable event surrounding his ex wife Jane Riv accidentally connects with his cousin Mauro and great Aunt Corelletta who asks him to find her daughter Angelica Alfa No sooner is Riv on the trail when it becomes clear that not only are the cops not looking for Angelica but they are actively preventing him from finding her This could be a good thing because the police are clearly in the pocket of one Exeter Mondragon a name best never uttered in public if one wants to stay alive But Riv is not one to leave things incomplete When his investigation leads him straight into the heart of Mondragon s criminal empire he is forced not only to face unimaginable horrors but also to plunge into the deepest and most perplexing conundrums of the human condition Lightning fast on the page and steeped in the cultural history of Columbia Every Arc Bends Its Radian is a novel only Sergio de la Pava could write As incredibly funny as it is ridiculously smart it poses large philosophical questions while keeping you laughing A novel idea about the biggest idea of them all what in God s name are we even put on earth for this book is a singular exploration of the human mind Every Arc Bends Its RadianYou know those stereotypical bad guys with huge vocabularies who use big words ALL the time even when smaller words would actually be correct Well now imagine that almost every character in the novel including the narrator talks like that all the time Now sprinkle in lots of vague wool gathering segments with even bigger words that make less sense and may not actually work in English sigh I am hoping that the original text of this book is better because the English translation was really bad No one in real life talks like that The dialogue between some of the rougher characters was less bad but I live in a highly Hispanic part of the US and no one I know with a Spanish influenced urban speech style talks like the characters that seem to be aiming that way either So if you can read Spanish maybe try the original because until a master translator takes on this project this one is tough. Every Arc Bends Its radianol Also this is not a mystery novel It has a sort of mystery plot but is of a literary horror novel Seriously the hardcore bits with Mr Mondragon s lair are horror genre and this section goes on way too long to shelve this book in the mystery genre section It may be horror light but it is horror. Every Arc Bends Its Radian Literature fiction All that said I did actually finish this book and not just because it is mercifully short So maybe a better translation of this book can happen eventually so readers who are not already fans can experience this book in a satisfying form 288 I genuinely feel like I lacked the intelligence and philosophical capacity to understand this book Writing a review for it would be a disservice and insult to the author because I don t understand fully what I just read I m sure this was a good book it just wasn t fluid for me Nothing was laid out as in actually explained in a coherent way Just a bunch of concepts and sciencey jargon It s like one thing was said but meant to be interpreted differently And the whole book is like that Also I don t speak fluent Spanish and there are plenty of quotes or ramblings without translation Eh Thanks to Netgalley for the eARC 2 288 This book was very strange and I do not feel smart enough for it 2 stars because once I got a hang of the style I did enjoy the first 1 3rd or so and the descriptions of Columbia and the banter between the cousins The narrator did do a great job and made it able for me to finish it 288
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| Every Arc Bends Its Radian By Sergio de la Pava |
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Sergio de la Pava is the author of A Naked Singularity: Every Arc Bends Its Radian Literature fiction Sergio de la Pava is a writer who does not live in Brooklyn