Heavens on Earth [Paperback]

Three narrators from different historical eras engage in preserving history inHeavens on Earth. As her narrators sense each other and interact through time and space, Boullosa challenges the primacy of recorded history and asserts literature and language's power to transcend the barriers of time and space in vivid, urgent prose.

Carmen Boullosais one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. Her most recent novelTexas: The Great Theft(Deep Vellum, 2014) was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize, nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, and won Typographical Era's Translation Award. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Mexico City, Mexico.

From Carmen Boullosa, winner of Mexicos prestigious Xavier Villaurrutia Award, comesHeavens on Earth, a testament to the power of the written word in transcending political, racial, and cultural barriers to create and preserve history.Lear, officially known as 24, lives in LAtl?ntide, a utopian post-apocalyptic society placing increasing limits on the use of language. Steadfast in her resistance to new regulations and pressure to conform, Lear continues to transcribe the writings of Don Hernando, a 16th century Indian priest, and of Estela in the l³’