Fog at Noon

"One of South America's most acclaimed and pitch-perfect novelists, González plunges you into the brutality of man and nature alike." -- Kerri Arsenault

A perceptive whodunnit set in the shimmering mountain ranches of Colombia, told by a bewitching cast of potential perpetrators

What happens when a person goes missing? Told from alternating perspectives, Fog at Noon offers readers the chance to methodically decipher the story of Julia. A conceited "ninny," somewhat-gifted poet, ravishing temptress, and thorny friend, Julia shapeshifts and sparkles in the blinding light of conflicting narrative. Her raconteurs? A frequently fishy chorus of acquaintances, lovers, sisters-in-law, and friends. And from behind the veil, Julia speaks for herself.

Tomás González writes of the passionate origins of an affair and its precipitous conclusion, of untraceable debts and the liminal realms between the living and the dead, of New York in a blizzard and the Colombian mountain chains cloaked in fog. Chapter by chapter, each narrator's story reveals more of Julia's past, and the tangled love affairs and financial snarls that tie these figures to each other illuminate not just Julia's absence, but our own human foibles.

Readers will be reminded of the propulsive mysteries of Big Little Lies, as much as the incisive literary works of Domenico Starnone, Michael Ondaatje, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Andrea Rosenberg's translation gleams in every line, as we are lured deeper into the elusive world of Fog at Noon.

Author: Tomas Gonzalez
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781953861887

About the Author
Tomás González was born in 1950 in Medellín, Colombia. He studied philosophy and worked in a Bogotá nightclub. The club's owner published In the Beginning Was the Sea, his first novel, in 1983. After twenty years living in New York and Miami, González returned to Colombia, where he now lives.His books are published in Spanish by Alfaguara.

Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Among her full-length translations are Tomás González's Difficult Light and The Storm, Inês Pedrosa's In Your Hands, and Aura Xilonen's The Gringo Champion. Her translation of Marcelo D'Salete's graphic novel Run for It: Stories of Slaves Who Fought for Their Freedom won an Eisner Award. She holds an MFA in literary translation and an MA in Spanish from the University of Iowa, and she has been the recipient of awards and grants from the Fulbright Program, the American Literary Translators Association, among others.