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  • Cathedrals

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    **Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go.**Thirty years ago, in an empty plot of a quiet neighbourhood, a teenage girl's body was found quartered and burned. The investigation ended with no arrests and her family – middle class, educated, Catholic – quietly disintegrated. Three decades later, the hidden truth comes to light thanks to ... Read more

    $20.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Sacrifices

    by María Fernanda Ampuero ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, María Fernanda Ampuero’s writing is “raw and savage” as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story collection (Vistazo).An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group of outcasts obsess over boys drowned while surfing, and an unhappy couple finds themselves ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Cockfight

    by Maria Fernanda Ampuero ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a "grotesque, unflinching" portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly).“Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” —Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the WorldNamed one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time of the Flies

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    Life after crime from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Elena KnowsFifteen years after killing her husband’s lover, Inés is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they’ve started a business – FFF, or Females, Fumigation, and Flies – dedicated to pest control and private investigation, by women, for women. But Señora Bonar, ... Read more

    $21.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The German Room

    by Carla Maliandi ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    How do you will a life into order? Adrift in Germany, a pregnant, aimless Argentine and her small circle of friends try and fail to find out.Fall in Heidelberg, and in a student residence a not-student, a woman from Argentina, is busy not figuring out what to do next. She’s pregnant. Shanice, a Japanese student she had barely befriended, has died. Shanice’s mother has arrived from Tokyo and will ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Little Luck

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    From the author of Elena Knows , finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and isolation. She is not the same—not her name or voice, not even the color of her eyes. The neighborhood looks different too, but she’s still the same woman and it’s still the same place, and as the past ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elena Knows

    by Claudia Piñeiro ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its ... Read more

    $18.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slum Virgin

    by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    “Queer writing at its most exhilarating.” —Times Literary SupplementThe slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police, sex workers, thieves, drug dealers, and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed a ‘revelation for contemporary literature’ and ‘pure dynamite’ (Andrés Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century & Talking to Ourselves ).When the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wakeful Hours

    by Daniella Sánchez Russo ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    1990s Baranquilla, where the streets flood whenever it rains. There are fires, the river stinks, and people disappear without a trace. At school, a gang of teenage girls, Los Perros, inaugurates new members with increasingly extreme pranks each time one gets her first period. At home, a young boy panics unpredictably, his father is furious, his mother is in bed, clipping articles from the ... Read more

    $20.39 CAD

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  • Iosi, the Remorseful Spy

    by Miriam Lewin, Horacio Lutzky ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    **A gripping true crime tale of espionage, Jewish history, and antisemitic mass terrorism in 1990s Buenos Aires.An unresolved true story that echoes today, this book shows that even after the military regime ended in Argentina and there was a civilian government, military and national police remained racist and antisemitic.**José Pérez, a young intelligence agent of the Federal Police, receives ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Myth of the Wrong Body

    by Miquel Misse ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle ...
    The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body – that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans activist Miguel Missé, this narrative is a harmful myth. It is rooted in a medical paradigm that typically leads to medical ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • January

    by Sara Gallardo ...
    Translated by Frances Riddle, Maureen Shaughnessy ...
    **"Hair-raisingly good . . . the plot explodes." – Lily Meyer, The New York Review of Books“Elegant and forceful – I couldn’t put it down.” – Catherine Lacey, author of Biography of X** ONE of THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 **A pioneering, revelatory masterpiece of modern literature that conjures the life of 16-year-old girl living on the Argentine pampas — now in English for the very first ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD