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Archipelago Books

The Storm

The Storm

by Tomás González, translated from the Spanish by Andrea Rosenberg

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Through glinting, lyrical prose, González reveals flashes of the “monstrousness of life.” Set in a Colombian seaside village, The Storm twists around one family and the bubbling hatred of twins Mario and Javier for their father. Lost in delusions of grandeur, the father forces his two sons on a fishing trip despite a roiling storm. The novel turns between the stunning sands bordering the Caribbean Sea and the washed-up debris – cans, tooth-brushes, and battered shoes – that corrode its shore.

Slipping in and out of the twins’ minds, González’s prose traps the reader in a spiral of scorn, compassion, and fear that belies an otherwise lush, calm landscape. Whether peering into the maw of the brutal storm or catching a glimpse of one’s reflection in glassy waters, this novel submerges us in its profound depths. From one of Colombia’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists, The Storm is threaded with lightning.

Additional Book Information

Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9781939810021
Pages: 120
Publication Date:

Praise

Tomás González’s The Storm depicts an older man and his two sons caught on a dangerous fishing expedition...The underlying absurdity hints at a particularly profound ennui that González, a seasoned if underappreciated writer, investigates in this and other works from his remarkable oeuvre.
—Héctor Hoyos, Public Books

In Andrea Rosenberg’s translation, the author’s stylistic traits—short and pointed phrases, poetic descriptions and poetic monologues—shine and linger in the reader’s ear... The Storm arrives as a welcome addition to the international recognition of one Colombia’s most prolific and poetic writers.
—Nicolás Llano, Asymptote Journal

Resentment and family dysfunction intensifies between twin brothers Mario and Javier and their father (“the old bastard”) just as a storm builds at sea, where the men fish outside their Columbian seaside village under glowering skies. Self-delusion, hallucinations, anger, volatility chafe against the soothing waters and the stars above, and González, one of South America’s most acclaimed and pitch-perfect novelists, plunges you into the brutality of man and nature alike.
—Kerri Arsenault, Lit Hub

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