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  • The Rest Is Silence

    by Augusto Monterroso ...
    Translated by Aaron Kerner ...
    The lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as “the most beautiful stories in the world” by Italo Calvino)—an antic, metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of an aging critic’s friends, relatives, and attendants.The one and only novel by the renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso—Latin America’s most ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Complete Works and Other Stories

    by Augusto Monterroso ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion.This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otros cuentos] 1959) ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
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  • Dom Casmurro

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    "A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an old palm-tree, and I believed in old palm-trees even more than in old books. Birds, butterflies, a ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis;Gregory Rabassa;Enylton de Sa Rego;Gilberto Pinheiro Passos ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man" writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. But while he may be dead he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound The ... Read more

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  • The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

    by Fernando Pessoa ...
    A selection of prose by "Portugal's greatest writer of the twentieth century . . . as addictive, and endearing, as Borges and Calvino" ( The Washington Post Book World).Building on the wonderful Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems, which was acclaimed by Booklist as "a beautiful one-volume course in the soul of the twentieth century," translator Richard Zenith has now edited and translated ... Read more

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  • Not to Read

    by Alejandro Zambra ...
    Translated by Megan McDowell ...
    In Not to Read, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading that also offers a kind of blurry self-portrait, or literary autobiography. Whether writing about Natalia Ginzburg, typewriters and computers, Paul Léautaud, or how to be silent in German, his essays function as a laboratory for his novels, a testing ground for ideas, readings and style. Not to Read also presents an ... Read more

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  • The Art of Flight

    by Sergio Pitol ...
    Translated by George Henson ...
    The debut work in English by Mexico's greatest and most influential living author and winner of the Cervantes Prize ("the Spanish language Nobel"), The Art of Flight takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural capitals as Sergio Pitol looks back on his well-traveled life as a legendary author, translator, scholar, and diplomat.The first work in Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," The Art ... Read more

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  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years

    by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll, Ilan Stavans ...
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    by César Vallejo ...
    Essential writings from the catalyst of the Latin American experimental traditionFor the first time in English, readers can now evaluate the extraordinary breadth of César Vallejo's diverse oeuvre that, in addition to poetry, includes magazine and newspaper articles, chronicles, political reports, fictions, plays, letters, and notebooks. Edited by the translator Joseph Mulligan, Selected Writings ... Read more

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  • Ficciones

    by Jorge Luis Borges ...
    Translated by Anthony Bonner ...
    “These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.” —The Atlantic MonthlyThe seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century.Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we ... Read more

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  • Pessoa

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    by Richard Zenith ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography)New York Times • Times Critics Top Books of 2021New York Times Book Review • Editors’ ChoiceKirkus Reviews • Best Nonfiction of the YearLike Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, Richard Zenith’s Pessoa immortalizes the life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fe... ... Read more

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