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Ten Planets (Paperback)
Yuri Herrera; Translated by Lisa Dillman
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The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's first collection of
stories inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and
instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and
the philosophical parables of Borges's Fictions and Calvino's
Cosmicomics, these very short stories signal a new dimension in the
work of this significant writer. In Ten Planets, objects can be
sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which
they are attached. A detective of sorts finds clues to buried
secrets by studying the noses of his clients, which he insists are
covert maps. A meagre bacterium in a human intestine gains
consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested. Monsters and
aliens abound, but in the fiction of Herrera, knowing who is the
monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition. This collection
of stories, with a breadth that ranges from philosophical flights
of fancy to the gritty detective story, leaves us with a sense of
awe at our world and the worlds beyond our ken, while Herrera
continues to develop his exploration of the mutability of borders,
the wounds and legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of
storytelling in all its forms.
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Cancion (Paperback)
Eduardo Halfon; Translated by Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn
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The Mexico we hear of in the news - the drug cartels, migration and
senseless violence - is rich soil for Herrera's moving stories of
people who live in this reality but also live in the timeless realm
of myth, epic and fairy tale, such as the singer Lobo in Kingdom
Cons who loves the drug lord's own daughter, Makina who crosses
borders to find her brother in Signs Preceding the End of the
World, and the Redeemer, a hard-boiled hero looking to broker peace
between feuding families during a pandemic in The Transmigration of
Bodies. These three novels get to the heart of the matter in a
truly original way. They are storytelling that is at once timely
and timeless.
"Yuri Herrera is Mexico's greatest novelist. "Signs Preceding
the End of the World" delivers a darkly mythological vision of the
US as experienced by the 'not us' that is harrowing and
fierce."--Francisco Goldman, author of "Say Her Name"
"Yuri Herrera's "Signs Preceding the End of the World" is a
masterpiece, a haunting and moving allegory about violence and the
culture built to support and celebrate that violence. Of the
writers of my generation, the one I most admire is Yuri
Herrera."--Daniel Alarcon, author of "At Night We Walk in
Circles"
Makina knows how to survive in a macho world. Leaving her native
Mexico in search of her brother, she's smuggled into the United
States bearing two secret messages--one from her mother and one
from the Mexican underworld.
In this grippingly original novel Yuri Herrera explores the
actual and psychological crossings and translations people
make--with their feet, in their minds, and in their language as
they move from one country to another, especially when there's no
going back.
Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera's "Signs
Preceding the End of the World" is being published in a number of
languages, as is "The Transmigration of Bodies," which is
forthcoming in English from And Other Stories in 2015. He teaches
at the Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Translator Lisa Dillman is based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she
translates Spanish, Catalan, and Latin American writers and teaches
in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory
University.
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New and Selected Stories (Paperback)
Cristina Rivera Garza; Translated by Sarah Booker, Lisa Dillman, Francisca Gonz alez-Arias, Alex Ross
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One day, the children begin to show up in the subtropical town of
San Cristobal, unwashed and hungry. No one knows where they have
come from or where they disappear to each night. And then they rob
a supermarket and stab two adults, bringing fear to the town. So
begins a thrilling morality tale that retraces the lines between
good and evil, the civil and the wild, dragging our assumptions
about childhood and innocence out into the light.
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Kingdom Cons (Paperback)
Yuri Herrera; Translated by Lisa Dillman
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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 noir romance, this prize-winning novel from Yuri Herrera
questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by
patronage and power.
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The Bitch (Paperback)
Pilar Quintana; Translated by Lisa Dillman
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Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off
the brutal forces of nature. Damaris lives with her fisherman
husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at
that age 'when women dry up,' as her uncle puts it, she is eager to
adopt an orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just
affection into her home. The Bitch is written in a prose as terse
as the villagers, with storms - both meteorological and emotional -
lurking around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in
this poignant exploration or the many meanings of motherhood and
love.
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Abyss (Paperback)
Lisa Dillman
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From the author of National Book Award 2021 Finalist The Bitch
Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to
understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But
her hardworking father hardly speaks a word, while her unhappy
mother spends her days reading celebrity lifestyle magazines,
tending to her enormous collection of plants, and filling Claudia's
head with stories about women who end their lives in tragic ways.
Then an interloper arrives, disturbing the delicate balance of
family life, and Claudia's world starts falling apart. In this
strikingly vivid portrait of Cali, Colombia, Claudia's acute
observations remind us that children are capable of discerning
extremely complex realities even if they cannot fully understand
them. In Abyss, Quintana leads us brilliantly into the lonely heart
of the child we have all once been, driven by fear of abandonment.
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The Bitch (Paperback)
Pilar Quintana; Translated by Lisa Dillman
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2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALIST In
Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and
ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. "The magic
of this sparse novel is its ability to talk about many things, all
of them important, while seemingly talking about something else
entirely. What are those things? Violence, loneliness, resilience,
cruelty. Quintana works wonders with her disillusioned,
no-nonsense, powerful prose." Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The
Sound of Things Falling "The Bitch is a novel of true violence.
Artist that she is, Pilar Quintana uncovers wounds we didn't know
we had, shows us their beauty, and then throws a handful of salt
into them." Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the
World Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding
off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing
is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a
shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age
"when women dry up," as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt an
orphaned puppy. But this act may bring more than just affection
into her home. The Bitch is written in a prose as terse as the
villagers, with storms both meteorological and emotional lurking
around each corner. Beauty and dread live side by side in this
poignant exploration of the many meanings of motherhood and love.
On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compania de Santa
Gertrudis - the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of
the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company - may have
committed murder. The alert was first raised at six in the morning:
a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief
evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company
representatives hastened to assert that "no more than ten" men
remained inside the mineshafts, and that all ten were most
certainly dead. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the
death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. And there were seven
survivors. A century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera has
reconstructed a workers' tragedy at once globally resonant and
deeply personal: Pachuca is his hometown. His work is an act of
restitution for the victims and their families, bringing his full
force of evocation to bear on the injustices that suffocated this
horrific event into silence.
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A Luminous Republic (Paperback)
Andres Barba; Translated by Lisa Dillman; Foreword by Edmund White
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"Wholly compelling." --Colm Toibin "A captivating piece of
storytelling."--Boston Globe A new novel from a Spanish literary
star 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 Cristobal 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 they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to
the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then
the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing
complete collapse, municipal forces embark on a hunt to find the
kids before the city falls into irreparable chaos. Narrated by the
social worker who led the hunt, A Luminous Republic is a
suspenseful, anguished fable that "could be read as Lord of the
Flies seen from the other side, but that would rob Barba of the
profound originality of his world" (Juan Gabriel Vasquez).
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Mourning (Paperback)
Eduardo Halfon; Translated by Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn
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The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon continues as he searches for
his roots through tangled childhood memories of a haunting family
tragedy International Latino Book Award Winner * Edward Lewis
Wallant Award Winner In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous
wanderer travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan
countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows
memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland and to
the contradictory, forbidden stories of his father's
Lebanese-Jewish immigrant family, specifically surrounding the
long-ago childhood death by drowning of his uncle Salomon. But
what, or who, really killed Salomon? As he goes deeper, he realizes
that the truth lies buried in his own past, in the brutal Guatemala
of the 1970s and his subsequent exile to the American South.
Mourning is a subtle and stirring reflection on the formative and
destructive power of family mythology, silence, and loss.
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Such Small Hands (Paperback)
Andres Barba; Translated by Lisa Dillman
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Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has
learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says
her name (Marina), her doll's name (also Marina) and her age
(seven). Her parents were killed in a car crash and now she lives
in the orphanage with the other little girls. But Marina is not
like the other little girls. In the curious, hyperreal, feverishly
serious world of childhood, Marina and the girls play games of
desire and warfare. The daily rituals of playtime, lunchtime and
bedtime are charged with a horror; horror is licked by the dark
flames of love. When Marina introduces the girls to Marina the
Doll, she sets in motion a chain of events from which there can be
no release. With shades of Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson,
Guillermo Del Toro and Mariana Enriquez, Such Small Hands is a
beautifully controlled tour-de-force, a bedtime story to keep
readers awake.
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Abyss (Paperback)
Pilar Quintana; Translated by Lisa Dillman
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By 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
REVIEW Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to
understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But
her hardworking father hardly speaks a word, while her unhappy
mother spends her days reading celebrity lifestyle magazines,
tending to her enormous collection of plants, and filling Claudia's
head with stories about women who end their lives in tragic ways.
Then an interloper arrives, disturbing the delicate balance of
family life, and Claudia's world starts falling apart. In this
strikingly vivid portrait of Cali, Colombia, Claudia's acute
observations remind us that children are capable of discerning
extremely complex realities even if they cannot fully understand
them. In Abyss, Quintana leads us brilliantly into the lonely heart
of the child we have all once been, driven by fear of abandonment.
A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families
with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer,
to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him
to stay indoors, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city's
underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold
hostage.Yuri Herrera's novel is a response to the violence of
contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Roberto
Bolano and Raymond Chandler, The Transmigration of Bodies is a
noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies - loved, sanctified,
lusted after, and defiled - that violent crime has touched.
This extraordinarily ambitious novel sets out to portray the spiritual landscape of the Cuban people in the wake of Castro's revolutionary upheaval. Like Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Lazarus Rumba describes a country beset by social dislocation and personal confusion, a country whose soul is best captured by a lush magic realism woven from innumerable tales told in voices both melancholy and lively, lyrical and coarse, delicate and grotesque. As intensely political as Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Lazarus Rumba centers around three generations of woman in the Lucientes family and follows the story of Alicia Lucientes as, almost inadvertently, she becomes the most famous dissident on the island.
Drama3m, 3f Simple Set When Zell Preston inherits her father's
struggling pecan farm and moves back to her childhood home in
Fronteras, New Mexico, she fi nds that the once tight-knit border
community has changed radically. The government has cracked down on
the undocumented immigrant population, dividing families and
pitting neighbor against neighbor. Chuy Gallegos, foreman at the
Preston farm for 30 years, wants the piece of land he says Zell's
father promised him long ago. Ines Sandoval and her sister Angie
Zelaya lobby for the return of their recently deported aunt.
Angie's husband Carl Zelaya defends to his community and family his
choice to work for the Border Patrol. And Cooper Daniels,
industrial pecan grower and head of a civilian border surveillance
group, forges ahead with a volunteer-built fence. These forces
collide in Ground, which examines the human costs of immigration
policies, and the strength of personal beliefs about family, home,
and civil rights in the face of a shifting political and social
landscape.
GROUND premiered at the 2010 Humana Festival of New American
Plays."Breathtaking in every way." -- Charles Whaley,
TotalTheater.com..".Tackles the hot-button issue of illegal
immigration." -- David Shreward, Back Stage"The hot-button topic of
controlling illegal immigration is presented in a highly personal
context, so that the characters make choices based on distinct and
individual motivations that are well delineated in the writing. It
is an engrossing drama..." - Keith Waits, Theatre Louisville
Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Émile Zola to Argentinean Literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres is crucial for an understanding of the period of consolidation of Argentina, the formation of national identity, and especially for the role of the intellectual in that transition. This generation theoretically and methodically built up a literature with features of its own, stressing the cultural primacy of Buenos Aires par excellence, to enhance the evolution a cosmopolitan metropolis.
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