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“brais lamela”

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  • What Remains

    by Brais Lamela ...
    Translated by Jacob Rogers ...
    A deeply personal debut novel that blends fiction, memoir, essay, and archival writing to explore the complexity of migration, the history of forced resettlement, and the weight of the colonial past.Shifting between the intimate present and the archival past, New York City and the remote mountains of Negueira de Muñiz, Galician writer Brais Lamela’s award-winning debut novel follows a young ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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    by Agustina Bazterrica ...
    Translated by Sarah Moses ...
    An NPR Best Book of 2023A collection of twenty dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica*,* this collection of twenty brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Story of My Teeth

    by Valeria Luiselli ...
    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
    Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.Highway is a late-in-life world traveller, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the ‘notorious infamous’ like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, ... Read more

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  • Horizontal Vertigo

    A City Called Mexico

    by Juan Villoro ...
    Translated by Alfred MacAdam ...
    At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

    by Ailton Krenak ...
    Translated by Anthony Doyle ...
    “Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.” — Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen FeathersIndigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.From Brazil comes ... Read more

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  • Our Migrant Souls

    A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

    by Héctor Tobar ...
    WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION**Named One of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 | A Top Ten Book of 2023 at Chicago Public LibraryA new book by the Pulitzer Prize**–winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity.In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Comemadre

    by Roque Larraquy ...
    Translated by Heather Cleary ...
    Literary Latin American Flatliners: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to investigate the line between life and death. One hundred years later, a celebrated artist goes to extremes ... Read more

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  • A Luminous Republic

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    A literary novel about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos.San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city—small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first ... Read more

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  • The Tango Singer

    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    by Tomás Eloy Martínez ...
    Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel ... Read more

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  • Pop Song

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    by Larissa Pham ...
    "A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed)Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go ... Read more

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  • Undiscovered

    A Novel

    by Gabriela Wiener ...
    Translated by Julia Sanches ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE“An intimate story from the family archive that is also the infamous history of our continent.”—Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children ArchiveAward-winning Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener delivers her stunning English breakthrough in this "appealingly raw" (NPR) and "incisive" (Publishers Weekly) work of literary autofiction that explores ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Things We've Seen

    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    by Agustín Fernández Mallo ...
    In The Things We've Seen, his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, Agustín Fernández Mallo captures the strangeness and interconnectedness of human existence in the twenty-first century. A writer travels to the small uninhabited island of San Simón, used as a Franquist concentration camp during the Spanish Civil War, and witnesses events which impel him on a wild goose chase across ... Read more

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