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ОглавлениеPraise for David Lida’s Travel Advisory
“Forget your romantic notions about south-of-the-border idylls. Writer David Lida gets at the contradictory, elusive reality of Mexico in this disturbing and powerful debut collection...elegantly conceived and executed...a powerful and original writer, one to follow, wherever he takes us next.”
— New Orleans Times-Picayune
“David Lida’s powerful, sympathetic, and critical imagination renders Mexico and Mexicans from seemingly every angle — it is like being let in on a secret, one detail at a time.”
— Luc Sante, author of Low Life and The Factory of Facts
“Disturbing, provocative and often darkly funny, the stories in Travel Advisory go a long way toward explaining the duality many of us feel toward Mexico.”
— San Antonio Express News
“Gritty and unforgiving...paints a convincing, unvarnished picture of a struggling country.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Gets under your skin...the power of Lida’s stories lies in their tawdry, unraveling characters and the uncompromising, even disastrous situations in which they find themselves in this land of sorcery, squalor and seduction.”
— Time Out New York
“Observant, engrossing, horrifying, warmly humane and cooly yet devastatingly satiric stories. An intimate and convincing fictional portrait of contemporary life in Mexico.”
— Francisco Goldman, author of The Ordinary Seaman
“Simultaneously perverse and purifying, Travel Advisory ushers in a talented writer with a mordant eye.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“These short stories ... capture Mexico at its essence, in intimate glimpses rather than generalities... an easy, narrative style that flows freely from devastating satire to equally insightful compassion.”
— Paper
