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  • Verdant Inferno/A Scabby Black Brazilian

    A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy, attacking the decolonial question with poetic ferocity.A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy. Both attack the decolonial question with poetic ferocity, ignited by the moment when ... Read more

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  • The Stone Raft

    Translated by Giovanni Pontiero ...
    A "marvelously amusing" political fable in which part of the European continent breaks off and drifts away on its own ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).A Nobel Prize winner who has been called "the García Márquez of Portugal" ( New Statesman) chronicles world events on a human scale in this exhilarating allegorical novel.One day, quite inexplicably, the Iberian Peninsula simply breaks free from ... Read more

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  • The Log from the Sea of Cortez

    A Penguin ClassicIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which ... Read more

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  • The Motorcycle Diaries

    Notes on a Latin American Journey

    Series series The Che Guevara Library
    A New York Times bestsellerWith a new introduction by The Motorcyle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che.The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures ... Read more

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  • The Storyteller

    A Novel

    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    From the Nobel Prize-winning author. "With enormous skill and formal grace, Vargas Llosa weaves through the mystery surrounding the fate of Saul Zuratas." — TimeAt a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man . . . that the storyteller is not an Indian ... Read more

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  • Tristes Tropiques

    "A magical masterpiece."-Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression." ... Read more

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  • Isla Negra

    Series series White Pine Poetry Prize
    Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on Chile’s coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Neruda captured Isla Negra in images fundamental to an understanding of his work. It was, according to Martin Espada, at Isla Negra where Neruda "in the company of his muse, walked alongside the source of his most lyrical ... Read more

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  • Sea of Cortez

    A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research

    The collaboration of two friends—one a novelist, one a marine biologist—produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man’s dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will ... Read more

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  • Voices of the Old Sea

    by Norman Lewis ...
    A memoir of a remote Spanish fishing village just after WWII, a community on the brink of change, by "the finest travel writer of the last century" ( The New Yorker).Seeking solace in the everyday after his World War II army service, travel writer Norman Lewis returns to his beloved Spain, to the fishing village of Farol, in the hopes of recapturing a lost sense of home. It is a place he knows ... Read more

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  • The Lost Steps

    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksThe best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction ... Read more

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  • An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

    Translated by Chris Andrews ...
    An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he ... Read more

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