Seeing Red

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Author: Meruane, Lina, McDowell, Megan (Translator) Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 3 May 2018 by ATLANTIC BOOKS in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 176 pages 130 x 197 x 13 | 170g Lucina, a young Chilean writer, has moved to New York to pursue an academic career. While at a party one night, something that her doctors had long warned might happen finally occurs: her eyes haemorrhage. Within minutes, blood floods her vision, reducing her sight to sketched outlines and tones of grey, rendering her all but blind. As she begins to adjust to a very different life, those who love her begin to adjust to a very different woman - one who is angry, raw, funny, sinister, sexual and dizzyingly alive. Show more