Mourning [Paperback]

International Latino Book Award Winner
Edward Lewis Wallant Award Winner
Kirkus Prize Finalist
Neustadt International Prize Finalist
Balcones Fiction Prize Finalist
PEN Translation Prize Longlist

A feat of literary acrobatics. New York Review of Books

InMourning, Eduardo Halfons eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memorys strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to the contradictory, forbidden stories of his fathers Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salom?n. But what, or who, really killed Salom?n? As he goes deeper, he realizes that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South.

Mourningis a subtle and stirring reflection on the formative and destructive power of family mythology, silence, and loss.

Eduardo Halfonmoved from Guatemala to the United States at the age of ten and attended school in South Florida and North Carolina. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Roger Caillois Prize, Jos? Mar?a de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel, and Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, he is the author of two previous novels published in English:The Polish Boxer, aNew York TimesEditors Choice selection andMonastery, longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award.

ACCLAIMED NOVELS & AUTHOR: Eduardo Halfons first two English-language books were lauded by outlets such as theNew York Times, Los Angeles Times, andMarie Claire, while the author was featured on NPR and at major U.S. book festivals and reading series, including PEN World Voices, Wordstock, the Twin Cities Book Festival, and the Brooklyn Book Festival.The Polish Boxerwas also a finalist for the Internationaló'