Liliana's Invincible Summer

El invencible verano de Liliana

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize! The story of one woman who, amidst immense adversity, refused to be forgotten.
Fighting the nightmare of losing a loved one, looking at the bound and damaged women, trying to rescue the truth from the fragmented life stories of women;
It is not only a feminist investigative documentary, nor a traditional memoir, but also an effort to restore Liliana's vibrant vitality.
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【Content Introduction】
“We each went out into the world, but when we came back to the pool, we became sisters again.
That is the space where our sisterhood is at its most intimate.
I want to see her in the water again. I want to swim side by side with my sister, just like we used to.”
On July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, my sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend.
She likes Daffy Duck, Hello Kitty, writing, and smoking Raleigh cigarettes;
She loves movies, swimming, the streets, architecture, her friends, and even Angel.
This is her superpower, but also her fatal weakness.
And I was trapped in a bubble of guilt and shame. For thirty years, I kept coming back to the same starting point:
What had been missed back then? Why hadn't she been protected?
Like an archaeologist, I carefully dusted off Liliana's relics.
Diving into a sea of ​​archives, testimonies, letters, diaries, notes,
Chasing her youth, the unconquerable summer within her.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
🏊‍ Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography: "For thirty years, I have missed Liliana every day. Every second."
How did a 20-year-old female college student die at the hands of her ex-boyfriend?
What was missed back then? Why couldn't she be saved?
In order to end the nightmare of losing loved ones and to regain Liliana's youth,
The elder sister visited relatives and friends, sorted out the relics, and sorted out the writings left by her younger sister, building a paper memorial.
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🏊‍ The personal history of an unruly girl, revealing the victim's true love and freedom. A model student. A loving woman. A careless person. A woman who was perhaps too free.
A college student who loves watching movies, smoking, and Hello Kitty. A naive girl who wants to try new things.
A kind and gentle girl who turned a blind eye to danger. A girl who lost her way and suffered daily abuse from her abuser.
However, what is the real Liliana like?
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🏊‍ "Writing is also direct action", every reader is a witness of love and justice!
Use poetic records to confront violence and return the right to narrate to female victims.
Addressing the gender inequality behind intimate terrorism, victim blaming, and language deficiency:
"Women who pursue justice. Women who are weary but united.
Women who have grown tired and persevered for centuries. Our rage will never fade.”
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🏊‍ Lost, lost in the maze of Mexican bureaucracy. Legal procedures are stagnant, official files are lost, and the whereabouts of the real murderer are unknown.
An official visit to seek justice for his sister thirty years later,
In the Russian nesting doll-like process, polite words, and the search that went around the country,
It turned into an odyssey with no end in sight...
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🏊‍ Renowned young designer Xihe created the cover, perfectly capturing the essence of the work. The azure swimming pool is an intimate space for sisterhood, enveloping it in warmth and allowing it to be heartbreakingly indulged.
Pure and sealed, it dives deep into memory, penetrates the shadows of time, and glimpses the endless fragments of summer.
120*200 paperback double cover, elegant and exquisite, comfortable to read.
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【Celebrity Recommendation】
Part memoir, part true crime story, Garza's account is both personal and political... In this relentless pursuit of the truth, Liliana becomes so full-bodied, so indelible. I will be thinking about Liliana for a long time, perhaps forever.
—The Washington Post
Through Rivera Garza's research, readers get to know Liliana, a bold and uninhibited university student and a competitive swimmer. She favored motorcycle jackets, had many friends, loved movies, and smoked constantly. She was a passionate activist, a clever and humorous leader, and an anxious and depressed dreamer. This collage, a vivid portrait of a murder victim, is one of the most impressive I've read of its kind. Rivera Garza captures the subtleties of human nature, then complicates and recomplicates them, creating layers of subtle cracks.
—The New York Times
The story of a woman who, in the face of immense hardship, refused to be forgotten.
—The New York Times Book Review
This is a heartbreaking memoir and an unsparing account of the pervasive gender violence in Mexico.
—Kirkus Reviews
Rivera Garza’s memoir is a remarkable work and represents a turning point in the brutal politics of patriarchy.
—The Boston Globe
In this powerful memoir, a master of Mexican literature explores the truth behind his sister's murder… Rivera Garza recreates Liliana's death at the hands of her ex-boyfriend, opening a Pandora's box of bureaucratic demons, reopening a cold case, and sparking a profound national conversation about intimate partner violence.
—Oprah Daily
"The Invincible Summer of Liliana" is the story of not only one woman's murder, but also the stories of thousands of women around the world. Christina Rivera Garza's examination of her own tragic story has shaken and awakened me, inspiring me to speak out as bravely as she has.
—Sandra Cisneros Cristina Rivera Garza has written something close to a miracle: not a case file, not a true crime story, but an attempt to recover Liliana’s vitality, her liveliness, her youth—all so cruelly taken away.
—Mariana Enriquez Cristina Rivera Garza is one of the greatest contemporary Mexican writers.
—Jonathan Lethem

2024-11-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

368

9787559872913