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by Clara Obligado (Author), Molly Wagschal (Translator)
Every journey can take place in three realms: the interior, the one that takes place in time, and the one that passes through space. The one whose dimension is space fills the senses, the temporal realm, nourishes the experience, yet it is the inner journey, however, that is transcendental.
In The Book of Mistaken Journeys, characters begin a journey in which chance guides their individual stories as they build toward an overarching trajectory. Along disturbing narrative spiral, these eleven stories address exile, migration, and the search for an alternative future.Author Biography
Clara Obligado was born in Buenos Aires. A political exile, she has lived in Spain since 1976. She has been awarded the Femenino Lumen prize and the Juan March Cencillo short novel prize. Some of her short story collections are Las otras vidas, El libro de los viajes equivocados, La muerte juega a los dados, and La biblioteca de agua and among her essay collections are Una casa lejos de casa. La escritura extranjera and Todo lo que crece. Naturaleza y escritura.
Molly Wagschal is a Ph.D. student at Brown University. She earned a BA in Comparative Literature & Society at Columbia University in 2022, and has since worked as an in-house translator and copywriter in Barcelona. Her academic interests include the poetry of exiled Republicans (specifically women) during and after the Spanish Civil War, as well as Catalan studies, literary translation, and the relationships between exile, translation, and gender.
