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  • My Tender Matador

    de Pedro Lemebel ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    As Chile descends into chaos, two disparate souls begin "an odd-couple romance, in the tradition of Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Crying Game" ( Kirkus Reviews).It is the spring of 1986, and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of Santiago's many poor neighborhoods, a man known as the Queen of the Corner embroiders linens for the wealthy. A hopeless and lonely ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Include Me Out

    de María Sonia Cristoff ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    An interpreter takes a vow of silence in order to re-define the terms on which she lives.Mara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steeled with the ten rules of silence set out in her manual of rhetoric, she takes a job as a guard in the local museum. The advantages of her work are threatened when she’s asked ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition)

    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    de José Emilio Pacheco ...
    This heart-breaking novella is a key work of 20th-century dystopian Mexican literature and sadly all too apropos todayThis landmark novella—one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times—offers a child’s-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in “the year of polio, foot-and-mouth disease, floods.” A middle-class ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Word of the Speechless

    Selected Stories

    de Julio Ramon Ribeyro ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    Available in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest South American writers of the 20th century.The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Festival & Game of the Worlds

    de César Aira ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 years in the futureIn Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he’s brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled: Why? Half-blind and terminally cranky, she does nothing but complain, despite ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Almost Never

    A Novel

    de Daniel Sada ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    "Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the most daring." —Roberto BolañoThis Rabelaisian tale of lust and longing in the drier precincts of postwar Mexico introduces one of Latin America's most admired writers to the English-speaking world.Demetrio Sordo is an agronomist who passes his days in a dull but remunerative job at a ranch near Oaxaca. It is 1945, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Paradise Travel

    A Novel

    de Jorge Franco ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    From one of Colombia's leading novelists, a tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrantParadise Travel recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, who agrees to accompany the beautiful, ambitious woman he loves to New York. On their first night in Queens, Marlon and Reina lose each other, thus ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Cardboard House

    de Martín Adán ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    A sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate novel that presents a stunning series of flashes — scenes, moods, dreams, and weather— as the narrator wanders through Lima.Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The novel presents a stunning series of flashes — scenes, moods, dreams, and weather— as the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • False Calm

    A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia

    de María Sonia Cristoff ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    "A bold, beautiful book."—The New York Times"A marvelous chronicle."—Publishers WeeklyPart reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm is the breakout work by Argentinian author María Sonia Cristoff. Writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia, Cristoff returns home to chronicle the ghost towns left behind by the oil boom. In prose that showcases her sharp powers of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Creator's Map

    A Novel

    de Emilio Calderon ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    A beautiful librarian pursued by the Nazis must protect a mysterious document said to be penned by God's own handEmilio Calderón is a true master of the historical novel, able to infuse a specific time and place with clarion detail and an aura of magic. In The Creator's Map, he vividly re-creates the shadowy schemes, romantic entanglements, and divided loyalties of a Europe torn apart by World War ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Conversations

    de César Aira ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    A cerebral and wildly funny story revolving around the incongruity of a gold Rolex watch spotted on a lowly goatherd’s wristDaily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera’s goatherd. This seemingly small absurdity sets off alarms: strange ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • A Dream Come True

    The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

    de Juan Carlos Onetti ...
    Traducido por Katherine Silver ...
    A Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America's greatest authors, and regarded as an inventor of a new form and school of writing.Juan Carlos Onetti's A Dream Come True depicts a sharp, coherent, literary voice, encompassing Onetti's early ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD