Nevada – Plastic Books
Nevada – Plastic Books
Nevada – Plastic Books

Nevada

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Pages
400 pp.
Language
Spanish
Publisher
Lava
Year
2024
ISBN
9788412582079
Dimensions
20.0 x 13.0 x 2.8 cm
Written by
Imogen Binnie and Milo J. Krmpotic

Nevada, by Imogen Binnie, is a radical and intimate road novel about identity, bodily awareness, and the possibility of existing outside imposed narratives.

Aboard a stolen car and traveling down seemingly endless back roads, Maria embarks on a flight that is also a search. Between gas stations, motels, and the hypnotic repetition of a country music radio station, the journey becomes the space to reflect on one’s own life through its cracks.

Reworking the classic codes of the North American road novel, Binnie constructs the portrait of a subjectivity in transit: a hyperaware, ironic, and vulnerable protagonist who relentlessly analyzes her identity on the margins of a society that does not recognize her.

More than a physical displacement, Nevada is an initiatory journey that continues to resonate with an entire generation of readers, centered around a question as simple as it is decisive: how to exist within a body.

Okay, there are no epiphanies. The only way to become a Buddha is simply to be one, to ignore the crap that gets in the way of being a Buddha. So it’s like: okay, if enlightenment is here, sitting with me, in the car, right on my lap, weightless and violent, then okay, enlightenment. Okay.

Title
Nevada
Author
Imogen Binnie, Milo J. Krmpotic
Publisher
Lava
Year
2024
Language
Español
Pages
400 pp.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN
9788412582079
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