Mar Nueva (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Helprin
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Short fiction, Political fiction
- Subjects: Dictators, Maturation or coming of age, Freedom, Oppression, South America or South Americans, Beaches or seashores, Fishing or fishermen, Fishes, Summer
- Locales: South America
“Mar Nueva” tells the story of, among other things, a boy's coming-of-age and his encounters with freedom, captivity, integrity, oppression, and life and death. Helprin's prodigious imagination weaves a novel's worth of themes, settings, and details into a thirty-two-page story.
The narrator recalls the seasons of his youth when his family would summer at their beach house in Mar Nueva, a seaside region of an unnamed South American country in the grip of a powerful dictator named Santos-Ott. Despite the ominous political background it was an idyllic life for a young boy,...
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