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  • Such Small Hands

    by Andrés Barba, Edmund White ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    One of the Guardian Best Books of 2017Every once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.”-Edmund WhiteLife changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kingdom Cons

    by Yuri Herrera ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and part narco-lit romance, this prize-winning novel from Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Abyss

    by Pilar Quintana ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALISTBy the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner“An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling events in this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life from Colombian writer Quintana (The Bitch). Readers will be dazzled.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEWClaud... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Day of a Prior Life

    A Novel

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    “A ghost story without ghosts that, beyond its formal elegance, explores loneliness, the cycles in which our lives revolve, and the immeasurable challenges of affection.”—Mariana Enríquez, author of Our Share of Night"Quiet, strange, and deeply reflective."—BooklistIn this contemporary ghost story, award-winning author Andrés Barba eerily explores how the past can hold us captive, as a woman ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ten Planets

    Stories

    by Yuri Herrera ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vulture).The characters that populate Yuri Herrera’s surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges’s Fictions and Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Million Drops

    A Novel

    by Víctor del Árbol ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    International Bestseller: A family’s dark past is inextricably tied to the interlocked histories of European fascism and communism . . .A “darkly engrossing” crime thriller blending “the best elements of historical fiction, psychological thrillers, and literary character studies” (Washington Post)Spain, present day: Gonzalo Gil is a disaffected lawyer stuck in a failed career and a strained ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Polish Boxer

    by Eduardo Halfon ...
    Translated by Ollie Brock, Thomas Bunstead, Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, Anne McLean ...
    The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon begins as he searches for information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at AuschwitzNew York Times Editors’ Choice * International Latino Book Award FinalistThe Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather’s past and the story behind his ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Here, Europa

    by Cristina Cerrada ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    A young woman’s experience of exile belies promises of safety and solidarity in the first English-language novel from award-winning Spanish author Cristina CerradaHeda, a university student, is forced to flee with her family from one European country to another after her father, a well-known intellectual, is denounced and life in their war-torn nation becomes untenable. Now Heda works in a paper ... Read more

    $20.29 CAD

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  • The Right Intention

    by Andrés Barba ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    Kirkus Best Books of 2018"Barba is a master of the novella . . . A gorgeous, fully realized collection."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner puts his marriage at risk while training for a marathon; a teenager can no longer stand the sight of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Touch System

    by Alejandra Costamagna ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman ...
    "Readers will find themselves hoping for more of this bold writer’s work."—Publishers WeeklyCat sitter, insomniac, former schoolteacher. Ania worries she is a “stand-in occupant,” a substitute in her own life. When she receives a request from her father to visit her dying uncle Agustín in Argentina, she makes the long journey across the Andes from Chile to Campana, where her family immigrated from ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canción

    by Eduardo Halfon ...
    Translated by Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn ...
    The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather’s abduction during the Guatemalan Civil WarBerman Literature Prize Winner * Cálamo Extraordinary Prize WinnerIn Canción, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers’ conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather’s multifaceted identity. To understand ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD