Maria Gainza (Author)
Maria Gainza was born in Buenos Aires, where she still resides. She
has worked as a correspondent for the New York Times in Argentina,
as well as for ARTnews, and has contributed to Artforum, The Buenos
Aires Review, and Radar, the cultural supplement from Pa gina/12.
Her debut novel, Optic Nerve, translated by Thomas Bunstead, was
shortlisted for the 2020 LA Times Art Seidenbaum award for First
Fiction, a finalist in the 2020 National Translation awards, and a
New York Times 'Notable Book' of 2019.
'Vividly detailed and saturated with intricate feeling, Gainza's
novel is an engrossing exploration of authenticity, obsession, and
the enveloping allure of art'
*Alexandra Kleeman, author of SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN*
This is a truly exquisite novel... It is moving, clever and written
wry precision... As much as the narrator is haunted, the reader
will be haunted
*Scotland on Sunday*
Gainza weaves a fascinating, often confounding story about beauty,
obsession and authenticity... Gainza is sharp, modern and playful,
a writer who multiples the possibilities of fiction
*Observer*
A richly detailed detective novel of sorts that explores
authenticity and the distance between the way things appear and
they way they really are
*Monocle*
Dazzling... [a] clever novel that explores the gap between what's
remembered and what's real
*Spectator*
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