TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halford,James
TI  - Requiem with yellow butterflies /James Halford
SN  - 9781760800611
AV  - DU105 .R478 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Crawley, Western Australia
PB  - UWA Publishing
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Requiem with yellow butterflies --; Caracas --; We want them alive --; Roraima and Manaus --; Don't care if it ever rains again --; And the village was fair to look upon --; Redcliffe --; Old peak, young peak --; Uluru: how to travel without seeing --; Porto Velho and Brasilia --; Coetzee in Buenos Aires --; Parque Lezama --; Such loneliness in that gold --; San Miguel del Monte --; The lakeside house; 2; b
N2  - An Australian writer and a Mexican scientist fall in love reading great Latin American books aloud. But it takes a decade of journeys across the region, together and apart, for them to learn to read each other. Requiem with Yellow Butterflies is a love story and travel memoir that unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of Latin America in the 2000s. It takes us on a 1200-kilometre question-mark shaped loop through the newly socialist republics of the pink tide, to a requiem mass for Mexico's disappeared and eventually back to Australia. Through evocative, unexpected pairings of southern hemisphere places and authors - Jose Maria Arguedas's Andes and Judith Wright's Cooloola coast, the Argentine pampa and the central Queensland brigalow country - the book explores distinct but parallel postcolonial literary traditions, the disordering state of love and the strangeness of coming home
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