Amazon Publishing Announces 32 Diverse Books for Late Summer and Early Fall
Giannina Braschi is one of Puerto Rico's most influential writers; her cutting-edge work has been honored by the National Endowment for the Arts, NY Foundation for the Arts, El Diario, PEN, Ford Foundation, Reed Foundation, Danforth Scholarship and Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. AmazonCrossing will publish three of her novels on September 27, two of which have been translated by Tess O'Dwyer. "United States of Banana" is an allegorical novel in which Braschi creates a post-9/11 world rocked by an unexpected power shift and which is struggling to realign itself in favor of liberty. In her energetic novel "Yo-Yo Boing!," Braschi reveals the Hispanic-American experience by taking on the voices of New Yorkers from varied backgrounds. "Empire of Dreams" is a work of postmodern fiction in which the author chronicles a decade-long love affair with 1980s New York. David Foster Wallace called Braschi's work a "synergetic fusion that marks in a determinant fashion the lived experiences of U.S. Hispanics."