Orlando Ortega-Medina
Auteur de Jerusalem ablaze : stories of love and other obsessions
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Photo Credit: Marte Lundby Rekaa
Œuvres de Orlando Ortega-Medina
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Ortega, Orlando Nelson
- Date de naissance
- 1970-05-29
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
Canada
USA - Lieu de naissance
- Belvedere, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Études
- University of California, Los Angeles
Southwestern University (School of Law) - Professions
- Lawyer
Author - Organisations
- California State Bar
- Prix et distinctions
- National Society of Arts and Letters award for Short Stories
Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize (2017) - Agent
- Jason Bartholomew (The BKS Agency)
- Courte biographie
- Orlando Ortega-Medina is the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions and the novels The Death of Baseball and The Savior of 6th Street. Ortega-Medina lives in England.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 44
- Popularité
- #346,250
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 8
"Stories of Love and Other Obsessions" is a very apt subtitle for Ortega-Medina's debut collection of short stories. Each of these stories portrays ordinary human beings who find themselves in the grip of compulsions or of malign external influences. Few, if any, of them are about "love" in the traditional sense.
The stories are set in Japan, Canada, the USA and Israel, and range from the expansive "An Israel State of Mind" to the mere vignette of "Eyesore in the Ginza". One character, Marc, appears in more than one story, but not much is made of that in any narrative sense.
The collection has quite a variety of styles. The opening "Torture by Roses" and the closing "Jerusalem Ablaze" are creepy and macabre. I found the sadness at the heart of "After the Storm", "And A Little Child Shall Lead Them" and "The Shovelist" the most affecting. The urban grit of "Eyesore in the Ginza" and "Invitation to the Dominant Culture" was OK, but I've seen it done better in the hands of writers like Junot Diaz.
I read this in a single sitting and am very much looking forward to Ortega-Medina's next effort.… (plus d'informations)