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The first story collection by the internationally celebrated writer
Alejandro Zambra, a book that "burn[s] brighter than most anything
we'd call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language"
(NPR)-now reissued by Penguin In this beloved and critically
acclaimed collection, Alejandro Zambra offers eleven stories that
capture life in Chile before and after Pinochet, a catalog of the
peculiar and powerful associations that shape our relationships,
our identities, and our lives. The effect is that of a novel in
eleven parts, each one uncannily captivating, formerly residing in
an innocuous desktop folder titled "My Documents." Intimate and
playful, inventive and profound, My Documents is one of Zambra's
finest achievements: a book that exudes boundless wit and
impeccable style and that is a testament to the necessity of
literature even-and especially-in times of political crisis.
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The Delivery
Margarita GarcÃa Robayo; Translated by Megan McDowell
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From the acclaimed author of Fish Soup , a novel of motherhood,
memory, and possibility just this side of the uncanny. In
The_Delivery_ , an enormous package arrives that can’t be opened,
Agatha the cat appears and disappears, half-finished buildings
punctuate the horizon—semi-ordinary happenings that take on an
otherworldly cast if you look at them sideways. And nothing is
stranger, in this high rise apartment far from home, than the
tenuous bonds of family that hold us together, or don’t. The
narrator works, zooms with her sister, makes plans for the future
(a writing residency, a child), and tentatively probes her past,
while subtle fissures open up around her, changing her life
forever. As she says about her childhood home, “Sometimes I get
curious…but I don’t ask, because the answer could come with
information I’d rather not know.†By turns tender and biting,
this is Robayo’s finest work yet.
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Our Share of Night - A Novel
Mariana Enriquez; Translated by Megan McDowell; Illustrated by Pablo Gerardo Camacho
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* An Oprah Daily Book of 2022 * A blazing new story collection that
will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the
three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a
vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century
canon.' –O, the Oprah magazine Cross the threshold of these seven
empty houses and enter the dark, destabilising world of Samanta
Schweblin. Here, homes are not a place of safety. A person is
missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some
unmoored, others empty. And in these tense, visionary
tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost, a fight,
trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, or the
fallibility of parents. Seven Empty Houses offers an entry
point into a fiercely original mind. In each story, the
twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes
the expected path and instead digs under the skin and reveals
uncomfortable truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of
the fragility of our connections with others. This is a
masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern writers.
* An Oprah Daily Book of 2022 * A blazing new story collection that
will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the
three-time International Booker Prize finalist, 'lead[ing] a
vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century
canon.' -O, the Oprah magazine The seven houses in these seven
stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory;
some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in
Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps
back in: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do
before you die, or the fallibility of parents. Seven Empty Houses
offers an entry point into a fiercely original mind, and a
slingshot into Schweblin's destabilizing, exhilarating literary
world. In each story, the twists and turns will unnerve and
surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs
under the skin and reveals uncomfortable truths about our sense of
home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with
others. This is a masterwork from one of our most brilliant modern
writers.
A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the
collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted
master of the spine-tingling tale A Guardian & Observer Best
Fiction Book of 2020 * A Sunday Times Best Science Fiction Book of
the Year * The Times Best Science Fiction Books of the Year * NPR
Best Books of the Year World Literature Today's 75 Notable
Translations of 2020 * Ebook Travel Guides Best 5 Books of 2020 * A
New York Times Notable Book of 2020 They're not pets. Not ghosts or
robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. You can
trust them. They care about you... They've infiltrated apartments
in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town
squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana.
Anonymous and untraceable, these seemingly cute cuddly toys reveal
the beauty of connection between far-flung souls - but they also
expose the ugly truth of our interconnected society. Samanta
Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel pulls us into a dark and
complex world of unexpected love, playful encounters and marvellous
adventures. But beneath the cuddly exterior, kentukis conceal a
truth that is unsettlingly familiar and exhilaratingly real. This
is our present and we're living it - we just don't know it yet.
*Little Eyes comes with two different covers, and the cover you
receive will be chosen at random*
Shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclan, 2020 Nominated for a
Shirley Jackson Award, 2019 A SPELLBINDING COLLECTION OF STORIES
FROM A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL LITERARY STAR The crunch of a bird's
wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson
flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Spine-tingling and
unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds
are impossible to forget. Samanta Schweblin's writing expertly
blurs the line between the surreal and the everyday, pulling the
reader into a world that is at once nightmarish and beautiful. An
exhilarating tour de force guaranteed to leave the pulse racing.
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10
BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" "A tender and funny
story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a
stepparent...[Chilean Poet] broadens the author's scope and quite
likely his international reputation." -Los Angeles Times "Zambra's
books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence
level, is in a world all his own." -Juan Vidal, NPR.org A writer of
"startling talent" (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro
Zambra returns with his most substantial work yet: a story of
fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and what it means to make a
family After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub, aspiring
poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love, Carla. Though their
desire for each other is still intact, much has changed: among
other things, Carla now has a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the
three form a happy sort-of family-a stepfamily, though no such word
exists in their language. Eventually, their ambitions pull the
lovers in different directions-in Gonzalo's case, all the way to
New York. Though Gonzalo takes his books when he goes, still,
Vicente inherits his ex-stepfather's love of poetry. When, at
eighteen, Vicente meets Pru, an American journalist literally and
figuratively lost in Santiago, he encourages her to write about
Chilean poets-not the famous, dead kind, your Nerudas or Mistrals
or Bolanos, but rather the living, striving, everyday ones. Pru's
research leads her into this eccentric community-another kind of
family, dysfunctional but ultimately loving. Will it also lead
Vicente and Gonzalo back to each other? In Chilean Poet, Alejandro
Zambra chronicles with enormous tenderness and insight the small
moments-sexy, absurd, painful, sweet, profound-that make up our
personal histories. Exploring how we choose our families and how we
betray them, and what it means to be a man in relationships-a
partner, father, stepfather, teacher, lover, writer, and friend-it
is a bold and brilliant new work by one of the most important
writers of our time.
Verónica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't
ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees
to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as
a literature professor, developing a novel about a man tending to a
bonsai tree on the weekends. He is a narrator, an architect, a
chronicler of other people's stories. But as the night stretches on
before him, and the hours pass with no sign of Verónica, Julián
finds himself caught up in the slipstream of the story of his life
– of their lives together. What combination of desire and
coincidence led them here, to this very night? What will the future
– and possibly motherless – Daniela think of him and his
stories? Why tell stories at all? Â Â Â The Private
Lives of Trees, Alejandro Zambra’s second novel, now published in
the UK for the first time in a revised translation by Megan
McDowell, overflows with his signature wit and his gift for
crafting short novels that manage to contain whole worlds.
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Fever Dream (Paperback)
Samanta Schweblin; Translated by Megan McDowell
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A young
woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy
named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her
child. The two seem anxious and, at David's ever more insistent
prompting, Amanda recounts a series of events from the apparently
recent past. As David pushes her to recall whatever trauma has
landed her in her terminal state, he unwittingly opens a chest of
horrors, and suddenly the terrifying nature of their reality is
brought into shocking focus. One of the freshest new voices to come
out of the Spanish language, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of
strange and deeply unsettling psychological menace in this
cautionary tale of maternal love, broken souls and the power and
desperation of family.
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Older Brother (Paperback)
Daniel Mella; Translated by Megan McDowell
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"This slim and vital novel is a tour de force; it will floor you,
and lift you right the way up-I adored it." -Claire-Louise Bennett,
author of POND During the summer of 2014, on one of the stormiest
days on record to hit the coast of Uruguay, 31-year old Alejandro,
lifeguard and younger brother of our protagonist and narrator, dies
after being struck by lightning. This marks the opening of a novel
that combines memoir and fiction, unveiling an intimate exploration
of the brotherly bond, while laying bare the effects that death can
have on those closest to us and also on ourselves._It's always the
happiest and most talented who die young. People who die young are
always the happiest of all... _Can grief be put into words? Can we
truly rationalise death to the point of embracing it? Older Brother
is the vehicle Mella uses to tackle these fundamental questions,
playing with tenses and narrating in the future, as if all
calamities described are yet to unfold. In a style reminiscent of
Bret Easton Ellis and J.D. Salinger, recalling in parts
Cronenberg's or Burgess's examination of violence and society,
Mella takes us with him in this dizzying journey right into the
centre of his own neurosis and obsessions, where fatality is
skilfully used to progressively draw the reader further in.
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Austral (Paperback)
Carlos Fonseca; Translated by Megan McDowell
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"A tender and thoughtful exploration of the painful irony of being
alive and our attempts to make sense of the past as well as the
present" KATHARINA VOLCKMER, author of The Appointment "A
reflection on identity, rootlessness and violence - Fonseca's most
ambitious, most complex and most accomplished novel to date" JAVIER
CERCAS, author of Soldiers of Salamis "A beautifully knotted novel
which unfolds with every traced layer of its deeply affecting
narrative alongside a meditation on memory, mystery and vanishing.
Sebaldian in its turns, Austral is a novel of profound questions"
GUY GUNARATNE, author of Mister, Mister A dazzling novel about the
traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to
rebuild. In this innovative novel three losses and three quests are
pursued. English writer Aliza Abravanel tries, in a battle with
aphasia, to finish her book. A last indigenous speaker is
confronted with the fading of his culture and language while an
anthropologist struggles to prevent it. And through the
construction of an esoteric theatre of memory, a survivor of the
Guatemalan genocide of the 1970s and '80s seeks to recover the
memories lost after the traumas of war. And behind these three
threads lies the narrator's own story: Julio, a disillusioned
university professor, must try to understand and complete his
friend Aliza's novel, and come to terms with a past he shared with
her but has blanked for thirty years. From the Guatemalan
wilderness to the high Peruvian Amazon, passing through Nueva
Germania, the anti-Semitic commune founded in Paraguay by
Nietzsche's sister, Austral takes us on a long journey south,
following a trail of ecological and cultural destruction to
excavate contemporary xenophobia. "Reminiscent of the best of
Bolaño, Borges and Calvino" Guardian Translated from the Spanish
by Megan McDowell
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 'Beautiful,
horrible... the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for
some time' Kazuo Ishiguro 'Smoky, carnal, dazzling' Lauren Groff
Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted
imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and
unearthed bones carry terrible curses. Thrumming with murderous
intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories
shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving
voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten. Lucid and
darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge,
witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic
and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten
to lead us over the edge. 'There is some serious power in this
writing' Daisy Johnson
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Austral (Hardcover)
Carlos Fonseca; Translated by Megan McDowell
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"Reminiscent of the best of Bolano, Borges and Calvino" Guardian A
dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and
the traces we seek to rebuild. In this innovative novel three
losses and three quests are pursued. English writer Aliza Abravanel
tries, in a battle with aphasia, to finish her book. A last
indigenous speaker is confronted with the fading of his culture and
language while an anthropologist struggles to prevent it. And
through the construction of an esoteric theatre of memory, a
survivor of the Guatemalan genocide of the 1970s and '80s seeks to
recover the memories lost after the traumas of war. And behind
these three threads lies the narrator's own story: Julio, a
disillusioned university professor, must try to understand and
complete his friend Aliza's novel, and come to terms with a past he
shared with her but has blanked for thirty years. From the
Guatemalan wilderness to the high Peruvian Amazon, passing through
Nueva Germania, the anti-Semitic commune founded in Paraguay by
Nietzsche's sister, Austral takes us on a long journey south,
following a trail of ecological and cultural destruction to
excavate contemporary xenophobia. Translated from the Spanish by
Megan McDowell
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Humiliation (Paperback)
Paulina Flores; Translated by Megan McDowell
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An uncompromisingly honest collection of short stories, examining
with unique perspicacity the missteps, mistakes and
misunderstandings that define our lives. Pride and disgrace.
Nostalgia and revenge. Tenderness and seduction. From the dusty
backstreets of Santiago and the sun-baked alleyways of impoverished
fishing villages to the dark stairwells of urban apartment blocks,
Paulina Flores paints an intimate picture of a world in which the
shadow of humiliation, of delusion, seduction and sabotage, is
never far away. This is a Chile we seldom see in fiction. With an
exceptional eye for human fragility, with unfailing insight and
extraordinary tenderness, Humiliation is a mesmerising collection
from a rising star of South American literature, translated from
the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize finalist Megan
McDowell.
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Bonsai - A Novel (Paperback)
Alejandro Zambra; Translated by Megan McDowell
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"Sublime . . . true and beautiful and moving." -The New York Times
Book Review The landmark first novel of one of the greatest living
Latin American writers-now in a sparkling new translation by his
longtime collaborator When it was first published in 2006,
then-literary critic and poet Alejandro Zambra's first novel,
Bonsai, caused a sensation. "It was said," according to Chile's
newspaper of record, El Mercurio, "that it represented the end of
an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation's letters."
Zambra would go on to become a writer of international renown,
winning prizes in Chile and around the world for his funny, tender,
sly fictions. Here, in a brilliant new translation from four-time
International Booker Prize nominee Megan McDowell, is the little
book that started it all: The story of Julio and Emilia, two
Chilean university students who, seeking truth in great literature,
find one another instead. As they fall together and drift apart
over the course of young adulthood, Zambra spins an emotionally
engrossing, expertly distilled, formally inventive tale of love,
art, and memory.
Thrilling and terrifying, Things We Lost in the Fire takes the
reader into a world of Argentine Gothic. A world of sharp-toothed
children and young girls racked by desire, where demons lurk
beneath the river and stolen skulls litter the pavements. A world
where the secrets half-buried under Argentina's terrible
dictatorship rise up to haunt the present day, and where women,
exhausted by a plague of violence, find that their only path out
lies in the flames...
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Bonsai (Paperback)
Alejandro Zambra; Translated by Megan McDowell
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Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean
students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other
instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise
themselves, and try new identities on for size, observing and
analyzing their love story as if it’s one of the great novels
they both pretend to have read. As they shadow each other
throughout their young adulthoods, falling together and drifting
apart, Zambra spins a formally innovative, metafictional tale that
brilliantly explores the relationship among love, art, and memory.
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Among The Hedges (Paperback)
Sara Mesa; Translated by Megan McDowell
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