{"id":222,"date":"2017-10-09T04:46:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T09:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=222"},"modified":"2020-07-05T08:23:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T13:23:57","slug":"vital-signs","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/vital-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Pedro de Jes\u00fas<\/strong><br \/>\n <strong>Translated by\u00a0Dick Cluster<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>ISBN 978-1-935084-54-9<br \/>\n Ebook 978-1-935084-56-3<br \/>\n 116 pages: $16.00<br \/>\n October, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Winner of Cuba\u2019s prestigious Premio Carpentier, this collection of eight inventive stories explores the pursuit of love and meaning in contemporary Cuba.\u00a0 One story takes you into a world of art and the marketplace, another into divination and the numbers racket, another into cooking and S&amp;M. These characters inhabit a real country full of contradictions and compulsions, far from our stereotyped images of nightclubs, beards, beaches and American cars. They are survivors, brought to us by a narrator who is sympathetic yet ironic, incisive yet serene.<b><em><br \/>\n <\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lucid marginality, the contradiction and curse of such clarity at odds with our surroundings: from the fog of a chaotic world Pedro de Jes\u00fas, ever watchful, draws out characters as if plucking them from a shipwreck.\u00a0<b><em>Vital Signs\u00a0<\/em><\/b>shows off the mature work of one of the most unmistakable voices in recent Cuban fiction.\u00a0<br \/>\n <strong>\u2014Jos\u00e9 Manuel Prieto<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<b><em>Rex<\/em><\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b><em>Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pedro de Jes\u00fas\u2019s stories trace the vital, disobedient forces that animate us beyond the constraints of the authoritative and the normative: our intellect, our imagination, our erotics. This careful, attentive translation allows de Jesus\u2019 uniquely Cuban voice and vision to live on, naked and seductive and compelling, speaking directly to fortunate readers beyond Cuba, and beyond Spanish.\u00a0<br \/>\n \u2014<strong>Ricardo Ort\u00edz<\/strong>, Georgetown University, author of\u00a0<b><em>Cultural Erotics in Cuban America<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><em>Vital Signs<\/em><\/b>\u00a0is an extraordinary and fascinating work that offers both an example of Pedro de Jes\u00fas\u2019 creativity and a window into the imagination of the Cuban people. De Jes\u00fas\u2019s subtleties have been masterfully translated into English by another artist, Dick Cluster.\u00a0 The stories will inspire any sophisticated mind, and the flavor of everyday Cuban speech and idiosyncrasies is also on display.\u00a0<br \/>\n \u2014<strong>Emilio Bejel<\/strong>, author of<b><em>\u00a0Gay Cuban Nation<\/em><\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b><em>Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed: Images of Memory and Mourning<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Raunchy, sublime, always compelling, the stories of Pedro de Jes\u00fas capture the essence of Cuban literature of the absurd. I am reminded of Calvert Casey and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/virgilio-pinera\">Virgilio Pi\u00f1era<\/a>, but Pedro de Jes\u00fas forges his own path. Dick Cluster, master translator, follows de Jes\u00fas, turning his words into magical, fabulous English.\u00a0<br \/>\n \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/pablo-medina\/\"><strong>Pablo Medina<\/strong><\/a>, author of\u00a0<b><em>Cubop City Blues<\/em><\/b>, and co-translator, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/mark-statman\/\">Mark Statman<\/a>, of\u00a0<b><em>Poet in New York<\/em><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedro de Jes\u00fas<br \/>\n trans Dick Cluster<br \/>\n9781935084549<br \/>\nWinner of Cuba\u2019s prestigious Premio Carpentier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[17],"product_tag":[124,126,45,382,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-222","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-dialogos","7":"product_tag-cuba","8":"product_tag-dick-cluster","9":"product_tag-fiction","10":"product_tag-fiction-translation","11":"product_tag-pedro-de-jesus","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple","19":"berocket_lgv_grid","20":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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