Loop

By: Brenda Lozano, Annie McDermott (Translator)

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Paperback | 24 September 2019

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Loop is a love story narrated from the point of view of a woman who waits for her boyfriend Jonás to return from a trip to Spain. They met when she was recovering from an accident and he had just lost his mother. Soon after that, they were living together. She waits for him as a sort of contemporary Penelope who, instead of knitting only to then un-knit, she writes and erases her thoughts in a notebook: Proust, a dwarf, a swallow, a dreamy cat or David Bowie singing ‘Wild is the Wind’, make up some of the strands that are woven together in this tapestry of longing and waiting.

Written in a sometimes irreverent style, in short fragments that at points are more like haikus than conventional narrative prose, this is a truly original reflection on love, relationships, solitude and the aesthetics and purpose of writing.

About the Author

Brenda Lozano is a Mexican writer. She studied literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She has published two novels, Todo nada and Cuaderno ideal, and a book of short fiction Cómo piensan las piedras. Cuaderno ideal has been translated into English by Annie McDermott under the title Loop.

Industry Reviews

English PEN (Award)

"A glorious tapestry of ideas." -The Guardian

"In this novel, the stream of consciousness is more like a whirlpool." -New York Times

"It should be read, period." -The Quietus

"A meditation on writing itself." -3:AM Magazine

"Absolutely marvelous from first to final sentence....an unmitigated delight." -Jeremy Garber, Powell's Bookshop

"A delightful meditation on waiting, love, and the inevitability of change." -Publishers Weekly

"Unforgettably marvelous from its very first sentence to its final one, Loop is a delighting, discursive, diary-like novel full of personality, humor, and profundity." -, Powell's Bookshop

"Lozano is a marvellous writer, bright, funny, subtly perverse, always moving."" -Francisco Goldman , author of THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER

"Lozano knows she is gifted, and has no shame in showing it."" -Margarita Garcia Robayo , author of FISH SOUP and HOLIDAY HEART

"An astonishingly successful notebook narrative that blends a solid plot with considered and funny musings on purpose and loneliness." -Books and Bao

"Experimental, witty and disruptive." -Splice

"Clever, innovative...an erudite observation of the everyday." -Translating Women

"A truly original reflection on love, relationships, solitude and the aesthetics and purpose of writing." -Elif the Reader

"Tremendous fun and an immensely rewarding read." -Jeremy Garber, Powell's Bookshop

"This is not a work that represents the irreducible violence of the place, solves loneliness, or is about death in every respect, but rather an attempt to live with these realities and still miss your boyfriend." -Air/Light Magazine

"Filled with many weird and wonderful curiosities." -Full Stop

"utterly charming and fun, philosophical and strange" -Loop

"Incredible...I loved every second of this book." -The Tartan

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