Seeing Red

By Lina Meruane Translated by Megan McDowell A visceral, moving, haunting English-language debut examines illness, the body, and human relationships by one of Chile's brightest young authors. “Lina Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges from the hammer blows of conscience, but also from the ungraspable and from pain.” —Roberto Bolaño Publication Date: February 23, 2016 Paperback: 9781941920244 eBook: 9781941920251 Description This powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships. Biographical Note Lina Meruane is one of the most prominent female voices in Chilean contemporary narrative. A novelist, essayist, and cultural journalist, she is the author o