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020    9781628975185|q(paperback) 
020    1628975180 
020    |z9781628975437|q(ebook) 
035    (OCoLC)1432736132 
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050 00 PS3603.A7346|bA83 2024 
082 00 813/.6|223/eng/20240823 
100 1  Cardenas, Mauro Javier,|eauthor. 
245 10 American abductions :|ba novel /|cMauro Javier Cárdenas. 
250    First North American edition. 
264  1 Dallas, TX :|bDalkey Archive Press,|c2024. 
300    229 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Cárdenas' novel 
       unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait
       of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin
       American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century. 
       American Abductions opens in a near-future United States 
       whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and algorithms has 
       enabled the mass incarceration and deportation of Latin 
       Americans-regardless of citizenship. After their father is
       abducted by immigration officials before their eyes and 
       deported to Colombia, Ada and her sister Eva are left to 
       contend with a United States as all-seeing as it is 
       hostile. Now adults, Ada remains in San Francisco while 
       Eva has joined their father in Colombia, tending him in 
       his ailing health. When his condition worsens, Eva asks 
       Ada to come see them: a nearly impossible feat, given the 
       United States' restrictions on Latin Americans' movements.
       Ada, terribly alone, must come to terms with the violence 
       of American society and the grief of lost community. 
       Exploring the role of technology, mass society, and 
       American expectations on how Latin American deportees 
       should tell their stories, the novel delves into the ties,
       memories, and lines of code binding communities together. 
       Mauro Javier Cárdenas has been lauded as one of the most 
       promising Latin American authors, and in American 
       Abductions, his deconstruction of American society and the
       surveillance state proves his generation-defining acuity 
       and storytelling. The book's polyphony of mysticism, 
       technology, and philosophy calls to mind the perceptive 
       dystopian visions of Philip K. Dick and the visionary 
       stylistic fluidity of Samuel Delany. The result is a sharp
       and metaphysical narrative, a masterwork examining the 
       place of Latin Americans in a United States that is always
       changing"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Latin Americans|vFiction. 
650  0 Electronic surveillance|zUnited States|vFiction. 
650  0 Deportation|vFiction. 
650  6 Latino-Américains|vRomans, nouvelles, etc. 
650  6 Surveillance électronique|zÉtats-Unis|vRomans, nouvelles, 
       etc. 
655  7 Political fiction.|2lcgft 
994    C0|bMCP