•Argentinian fiction is having a particular moment, with the success of Roque Larraquy, Rodrigo Fresan, Samanta Schweblin, and Cesar Aira likely to help Chejfec reach a larger audience<br><br>•Heather Cleary’s translation will draw more attention after making the National Book Award for <i>Comemadre</i><br><br>•Fourth book by Chejfec to be published by Open Letter <br><br> ...
Each time protagonist Dami comes up with another one of his “great ideas,” he is instantly thwarted by his own body, overcome time and again by various, almost comical, ailments. Throughout the ups and downs of his health and the desire to find his professional calling, Dami must learn the greatest lesson of life: that it goes on.Touching on phenomena such as the decline of the newspaper, the new poor and their struggle for employment and qualit ...
From the author nominated for the Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize "Bae Suah offers the chance to unknow—to see the everyday afresh and be defamiliarized with what we believe we know—which is no small offering."—Sophie Hughes, Music & Literature Near the beginning of A Greater Music, the narrator, a young Korean writer, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs, where she's been housesitting for her ...
Melding Pynchon with the Beats, Pincio sends his heroes Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady on a pulp sci-fi adventure in a satire of contemporary capitalism. Coca-Cola sells dreams and blames their customers for maiming caused by exploding bottles. Neal Cassady chases Marilyn Monroe. In Pincio’s 1950s, history is lost in fantasy, and the result is sheer entertainment. ...
Strong national historical interest, as well as regional interest, since the novel is set in Rochester, NY, and surrounding areas, and the publisher and translator are both based there. Interesting both as a historical work illuminating some of the workings of the nineteenth-century spiritualist movement, and as an entertaining fiction about human gullibility. Haddad is a perennial best-seller in France, yet only have one other book available in ...
"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's The Sixty-Five Years of Washington captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety."—New York Times[/i] It's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside Argentinian city named Santa Fe, and The Mathematician—wealthy, elegant, educated, dressed from head to toe in white—is just back from a grand tou ...
"The most important Argentinian writer since Borges."—The Independent[/i] Juan José Saer's Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine year old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have some connection to the crime: a young reporter, Ángel, who lives with his mother and works the courthouse beat; a ...
Enard's first novel in English, Zone, was widely praised, including a full-length review in the New York TimesThis novel has a very contemporary setting, taking place during the Arab Spring and Spain's financial collapseFinalist for the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix Goncourt Le choix de l'Orient ...
WINNER OF THE CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN WRITERS CONTEST[/b] A humorous picaresque set in sixteenth-century Spain, Thrown into Nature[/i] tells the story of Dr. Nicolás Monardes, whose medical treatise «Of the Tabaco and His Great Vertues» was partially responsible for introducing tobacco to Europe. His Portuguese assistant, Da Silva, narrates the absurd adventures of the wealthy and influential Dr. Monardes, who steadfastly believed tha ...
