Gloria
A woman’s entire life in a single day

It is a bright spring Saturday: April 11, 1970. The famous Argentine singer Sandro is about to become the first Latin American to perform at Madison Square Garden and Gloria will be one of the lucky attendees at the legendary concert. At just twenty years old, the young woman walks through the electric streets of New York. The disturbing images she recently encountered at her job at a photographic laboratory, the trauma of a father who was murdered when she was a child, and even the long-term prospects of her relationship with Tigre, her irascible boyfriend, are problems for another day. This day should be perfect and should last forever.

Five decades later, Gloria’s son looks back at his mother's life and realizes that their youth, marked by their time in New York at exactly the same age, are not so different. In prose as sincere as it is sophisticated, Gloria opens a window into a woman's life and asks us to consider how the choices we make in our youth reverberate throughout our possible futures.
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Gloria
A woman’s entire life in a single day

It is a bright spring Saturday: April 11, 1970. The famous Argentine singer Sandro is about to become the first Latin American to perform at Madison Square Garden and Gloria will be one of the lucky attendees at the legendary concert. At just twenty years old, the young woman walks through the electric streets of New York. The disturbing images she recently encountered at her job at a photographic laboratory, the trauma of a father who was murdered when she was a child, and even the long-term prospects of her relationship with Tigre, her irascible boyfriend, are problems for another day. This day should be perfect and should last forever.

Five decades later, Gloria’s son looks back at his mother's life and realizes that their youth, marked by their time in New York at exactly the same age, are not so different. In prose as sincere as it is sophisticated, Gloria opens a window into a woman's life and asks us to consider how the choices we make in our youth reverberate throughout our possible futures.
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Gloria

Gloria

by Andrés Felipe Solano
Gloria

Gloria

by Andrés Felipe Solano

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A woman’s entire life in a single day

It is a bright spring Saturday: April 11, 1970. The famous Argentine singer Sandro is about to become the first Latin American to perform at Madison Square Garden and Gloria will be one of the lucky attendees at the legendary concert. At just twenty years old, the young woman walks through the electric streets of New York. The disturbing images she recently encountered at her job at a photographic laboratory, the trauma of a father who was murdered when she was a child, and even the long-term prospects of her relationship with Tigre, her irascible boyfriend, are problems for another day. This day should be perfect and should last forever.

Five decades later, Gloria’s son looks back at his mother's life and realizes that their youth, marked by their time in New York at exactly the same age, are not so different. In prose as sincere as it is sophisticated, Gloria opens a window into a woman's life and asks us to consider how the choices we make in our youth reverberate throughout our possible futures.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781640096851
Publisher: Catapult
Publication date: 04/01/2025
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

ANDRÉS FELIPE SOLANO is the author of the novels Sálvame, Joe Louis, Los hermanos Cuervo, and Cementerios de neón. He also published “Salario mínimo,” an essay about his experience as a factory worker for six months. Corea, apuntes desde la cuerda floja, a non-fiction book about his life in South Korea, received the 2016 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana prize and was translated in 2018 into Korean. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders and Freeman's. He was featured in Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists. He currently lives in Seoul.

WILL VANDERHYDEN is an award-winning translator who has translated several books for Open Letter, Deep Vellum, and Akashic.
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