The Invisible Mountain (50 page)
CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS
grew up in an Uruguayan family that emigrated to England, Switzerland, and California. Her fiction, nonfiction, and literary translations have appeared in
ColorLines, The Virginia Quarterly Review
, and
Zoetrope Allstory
, among other publications. Her translation of the contemporary Chilean novella
Bonsai
, by Alejandro Zambra, was published in 2008. She lives in Oakland, California, where she is at work on her second novel.
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Copyright © 2009 by Carolina De Robertis
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Robertis, Carolina De.
The invisible mountain / by Carolina De Robertis. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-27193-8
1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Uruguay—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3618.O31535168 2009 813′.6—
dc22
2009009961
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental
.
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