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The Apartment on Calle Uruguay - A Novel
The Apartment on Calle Uruguay - A Novel
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Longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
A haunting new novel by the author of Vengeance in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a complicated romance that reveals their buried histories and vulnerabilities against the backdrops of an America in chaos and Mexico.
Beginning in the first summer of the post-Obama world, Zachary Lazar's bewitching and masterful new novel tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York. Bell has always felt marked by his foreignness, having emigrated to the U.S. as a child, and has come to believe that "words like 'identity' and 'American' are somehow very meaningful and very meaningless at the same time.ā He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods, āa rural nowhereā¦that sometimes held more meaning for me in its silence than human language.āĀ
In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to āreinvent herself as the kind of person sheād been beforeā the world she knew disappeared.Ā A complicated romance develops that gradually reveals their buried historiesāfrom the death of Bellās former partner, Malika Jordan, a fellow artist, to the prison farm where he visits Malikaās incarcerated brother Jesse, to Mexico City, where Anaās exiled family now lives. All of them have faced the same problem: how to build a new life once the idea you've had of "home" vanishes or becomes unrecognizable.
The Apartment on Calle Uruguay is a haunting exploration of love, art, and the cost of transformation. It lays out a fiercely intentional and introspective way of living in an unjust world.
A haunting new novel by the author of Vengeance in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a complicated romance that reveals their buried histories and vulnerabilities against the backdrops of an America in chaos and Mexico.
Beginning in the first summer of the post-Obama world, Zachary Lazar's bewitching and masterful new novel tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York. Bell has always felt marked by his foreignness, having emigrated to the U.S. as a child, and has come to believe that "words like 'identity' and 'American' are somehow very meaningful and very meaningless at the same time.ā He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods, āa rural nowhereā¦that sometimes held more meaning for me in its silence than human language.āĀ
In the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to āreinvent herself as the kind of person sheād been beforeā the world she knew disappeared.Ā A complicated romance develops that gradually reveals their buried historiesāfrom the death of Bellās former partner, Malika Jordan, a fellow artist, to the prison farm where he visits Malikaās incarcerated brother Jesse, to Mexico City, where Anaās exiled family now lives. All of them have faced the same problem: how to build a new life once the idea you've had of "home" vanishes or becomes unrecognizable.
The Apartment on Calle Uruguay is a haunting exploration of love, art, and the cost of transformation. It lays out a fiercely intentional and introspective way of living in an unjust world.
