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One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolano, an essential
voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an
unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent.
Roberto Bolano's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible
gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is
unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo
Belano--Bolano's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to
fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors"
takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse
where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself
recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society
of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in "Fatherland," a
young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as
the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence
and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in
the sky overhead. These three fiercely original tales bear the
signatures of Bolano's extraordinary body of work, echoing the
strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while
deepening our reverence for his gifts.
New Year’s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed
white Impala.
Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea
Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The
Savage Detectives is their remarkable journey through our darkening
universe. Told, shared and mythologised by a generation of lovers,
rebels and readers, their testimonies are woven together into one of
the most dazzling Latin American novels of all time.
Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, this picaresque novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former Cuban journalist living from hand to mouth in the squalor of contemporary Havana, half disgusted and half fascinated by the depths to which he has sunk. Like the lives of so many of his neighbors in the crumbling, once-elegant apartment houses that line Havana's waterfront, Pedro Juan's days and nights have been reduced by the so-called special times -- the harsh recession that followed the Soviet Union's collapse -- to the struggle of surviving the daily grit through the escapist pursuit of sex. Pedro Juan scrapes by under the shadow of hunger -- all the while observing his lovers and friends, strangers on the street, and their suffering with an unsentimental, mocking, yet sympathetic eye.
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You Dreamed of Empires
Ãlvaro Enrigue; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory,
revelatory, colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519,
conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the floating city of
Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet
the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires,
two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his
nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar,
a taciturn, former slave, and Malinalli, a strategic, former
princess. Greeted at a ceremonial welcome meal by the steely
princess Atotoxli, sister and wife of Moctezuma, the Spanish nearly
bungle their entrance to the city. As they await their meeting with
Moctezuma - who is at a political, spiritual, and physical
crossroads, and relies on hallucinogens to get himself through the
day and in quest for any kind of answer from the gods - the Spanish
are ensconced in the labyrinthine palace. Soon, one of Cortés's
captains, JazmÃn Caldera, overwhelmed by the grandeur of the city,
begins to question the ease with which they were welcomed into the
city, and wonders at the risks of getting out alive, much less
conquering the empire. You Dreamed of Empires brings to life
Tenochtitlan at its height, and reimagines its destiny. The
incomparably original Alvaro Enrigue sets afire the moment of
conquest and turns it into a moment of revolution, a restitutive,
fantastical counter-attack, in a novel so electric and so unique
that it feels like a dream.
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2666 (Paperback)
Roberto Bolano; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
New York Times Book Review "10 Best Books of 2008
"Time "Magazine's"" Best Book of 2008 "Los Angeles Times "Best
Books of 2008
"San Francisco Chronicle'"s 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008
"Seattle Times "Best Books of 2008
"New York Magazine "Top Ten Books of 2008
" Three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New
York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed
philosopher; a police detective in love with an elusive older
woman--these are among the searchers drawn to the border city of
Santa Teresa, where over the course of a decade hundreds of women
have disappeared.
In the words of "The Washington Post," "With "2666," Roberto Bolano
joins the ambitious overachievers of the twentieth-century novel,
those like Proust, Musil, Joyce, Gaddis, Pynchon, Fuentes, and
Vollmann, who push the novel far past its conventional size and
scope to encompass an entire era, deploying encyclopedic knowledge
and stylistic verve to offer a grand, if sometimes idiosyncratic,
summation of their culture and the novelist's place in it. Bolano
has joined the immortals."
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Antwerp (Paperback)
Roberto Bolano; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as
the Big Bang of Roberto Bolano s fictional universe. This novel
presents the genesis of Bolano s enterprise in prose; all the
elements are here, highly compressed, at the moment when his talent
explodes. From this springboard which Bolano chose to publish in
2002, twenty years after he d written it ( and even that I can t be
certain of ) as if testing out a high dive, he would plunge into
the unexplored depths of the modern novel.
Voices speak from a dream, from a nightmare, from passersby,
from an omniscient narrator, from Roberto Bolano. Antwerp s
fractured narration in fifty-four sections moves in multiple
directions and cuts to the bone."
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The Dinner Guest (Paperback)
Gabriela Ybarra; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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Sudden Death (Paperback)
Alvaro Enrigue; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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'Glorious' New York Times 'Endlessly inventive', Guardian, Best
Books of 2016 'Wildly funny' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and
Furies As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the
loutish Spanish poet Quevedo aim to settle scores over the course
of one brutal tennis match, the old European order edges closer to
eruption. Across the ocean, in early sixteenth-century Mexico, the
Aztec Empire is under the fatal grip of Hernan Cortes and his Mayan
lover. While they scheme and conquer, fight and fuck, their
domestic comedy will change the course of history, throwing the
world - and Rome's tennis match - into a mind-bending reverie of
assassinations, executions, papal dramas, carnal liaisons and
artistic revolution. Translated by Natasha Wimmer, the
prize-winning translator of Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives
and 2666.
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The Dinner Guest (Paperback)
Gabriela Ybarra; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE The Dinner
Guest is Gabriela Ybarra's prizewinning literary debut: a singular
autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of
her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of
private pain and public tragedy. The story goes that in my family
there's an extra dinner guest at every meal. He's invisible, but
always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often
he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of
those present. The first to vanish was my grandfather. In 1977,
three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra's grandfather's home,
and pointed a gun at him in the shower. This was the last time his
family saw him alive, and his kidnapping played out in the press,
culminating in his murder. Ybarra first heard the story when she
was eight, but it was only after her mother's death, years later,
that she felt the need to go deeper and discover more about her
family's past. The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of
documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events - the
very public death of Ybarra's grandfather, and the more private
pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela cares for her.
Devastating yet luminous, the book is an investigation, marking the
arrival of a talented new voice in international fiction.
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Space Invaders (Paperback)
Nona Fernandez; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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Author of "The Savage Detectives" and "2666"
Crushed by a devastating scandal, university professor Oscar
Amalfitano flees Barcelona for Santa Teresa--a Mexican city close
to the U.S. border, where women are being killed in staggering
numbers. There, Amalfitano begins an affair with Castillo, a young
forger of Larry Rivers paintings, while his daughter, Rosa, reeling
from the weight of his secrets, seeks solace in a romance of her
own. Yet when she finds her father in bed with Castillo, Rosa is
confronted with the full force of her crisis.
What follows is an intimate police investigation of Amalfitano,
leading to a finale of euphoria and heartbreak. Featuring
characters and stories from "The Savage Detectives" and "2666,"
Roberto Bolano's "Woes of the True Policeman" mines the depths of
art, memory, and desire--and marks the culmination of one of the
great careers of world literature.
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The Third Reich (Paperback)
Roberto Bolano; Translated by Natasha Wimmer
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A "New York Times Book Review" Editors' Choice
On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game
champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava
where he spent his summers as a child. There, they meet another
vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker side of
the resort town's life. Soon Udo is enmeshed in a round of the
Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, with a
shadowy local called El Quemado. As the game draws to its
conclusion, Udo discovers that the outcome may be all too real.
Written in 1989, "The Third Reich" is a stunning exploration of
memory and violence---and a rare glimpse at a world-class writer
coming into his own.
Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe—Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet—he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.
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