Join Ilan Stavans in conversation about his inspired prose retelling of Popol Vuh, the foundational creation myth of Mesoamerica. Out on November 10, this new rendition offers a window into Maya and K’iche’ cultural, spiritual, and ecological life in what is now Latin America, before the ravages of colonization. With lush illustrations by Gabriela Larios, Popol Vuh: A Retelling bring to life one of humankind’s most influential creation stories, and the cosmology of the people who conceived it .
This post will be updated as more events are confirmed.
October 26: With Boris Dralyuk at Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)
October 29: With Frederick Luis Aldama at DIESEL, A Bookstore (Santa Monica, CA)
November 9: ¡En español! Con Homero Aridjis en la librería Books and Books (Coral Gables, FL)
About the Author
Ilan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic’s Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast."
by Ilan Stavans
Illustrations by Gabriela Larios
Foreword by Homero Aridjis
2020 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner for Multicultural Fiction
2020 Mass Book Awards Must Read Fiction
An inspired and urgent prose retelling of the Maya myth of creation by acclaimed Latin American author and scholar Ilan Stavans, gorgeously illustrated by Salvadoran folk artist Gabriela Larios and introduced by renowned author, diplomat, and environmental activist Homero Aridjis.
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632062406
Publication date: Nov 10, 2020