Nominated for the Edinburgh Book Festival First Book Award 2017
One of Publishers Weekly's "10 Essential 21st-Century Spanish-Language Books"
An Entropy Magazine "Best of 2016: Fiction Books" selection
Included in World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translations of 2016"
A Foreword Reviews Reviewers' Choice Selection for "14 Favorites of 2016"
"A penetrating autobiographical novel, and for English-language readers this work serves as a stunning introduction to a remarkable author." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"This is not a fictionalized memoir of transformation and recovery, but a book that burns in your hands, something sharp and terrifying that bites back." -- Anna Zalokostas, Full Stop
"A novel of genius and disturbing intelligence." -- Enrique Vila-Matas, author of The Illogic of Kassel
"Funny and frightening, a swift meditation on vision, memory, the human soul itself. Very cinematic in its execution, bold in its content, Seeing Red ultimately forces us to give good thought to the great wonder and blessing that is a properly functioning body." -- On Art & Aesthetics
This powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships.
Lina Meruane (b. 1970), considered the best woman author of Chile today, has won numerous prestigious international prizes, and lives in New York, where she teaches at NYU.
