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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jessica sequeira”
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  • Other Paradises

    Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age

    by Jessica Sequeira ...
    Why do people choose to play with ideas considered antiquated? Why do they elect to act in non-productive ways? Perhaps the question can be asked in reverse: What comes to mind when we think of technology? That which is practical, efficient, invisible, fast, optimistic, constantly updated. So how can one explain the search for the opposite, that which is useless, inefficient, physically present, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Eighth Wonder

    a novel

    by Vlady Kociancich ...
    Translated by Jessica Sequeira ...
    **A fantastical story where the protagonist is caught between reality and the feverish inventions of his mind by a groundbreaking female novelist of Argentina’s metaphysical tradition.Available for the first time in English, this classic of Latin American literature--in the tradition of Borges, her mentor--features a foreword by Adolfo Bioy Casares.**Alberto Paradella, a divorced lawyer, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Our Dead World

    by Liliana Colanzi ...
    Translated by Jessica Sequeira ...
    Series series Bolivian Literature
    A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic cannibal. A mysterious wave travels through a university campus, driving students to suicide. A photographer witnesses a family’s surface composure shatter during a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Land of Smoke

    by Sara Gallardo ...
    Translated by Jessica Sequeira ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of García Márquez never before published in EnglishThese stunning stories by Sara Gallardo astonish, overwhelm and illuminate. Deeply real, they are also shot through with the supernatural. Every muscular, musical story reveals the way that the habits of everyday life can become unknowable and unpredictable. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Jewish Son

    A Novel

    by Daniel Guebel ...
    Translated by Jessica Sequeira ...
    A breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an acknowledged Latin American master.A brilliant and dark tour de force, Jewish Son presents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents’ attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a troubled family, a treatise on the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Absolute

    by Daniel Guebel ...
    Translated by Jessica Sequeira ...
    Winner....Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story bo... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    by Carole Maso ...
    Beauty is Convulsive is a biographical meditation on one of the twentieth century's most compelling and famous artists, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). At the age of nineteen, Kahlo's life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. Pierced by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Barcelona Noir

    by Adriana V. López, Carmen Ospina ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Journey to Spain with "stories that tap into history, politics and culture to cast a cloak of horror and humor on the city's distinctive neighborhoods" ( The Miami Herald).For some, Barcelona is a European enchantress of nouveau architecture, fusion tapas, and fine cava. To others, it's a Gothic labyrinth of tiny streets to lose oneself in; hashish-clouded after-hours bars to forget the time; ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Manuscript of Ashes

    A Novel

    by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    In this "beautifully wrought" novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery ( New York magazine).It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bogotá 39

    New Voices from Latin America

    by Various ...
    Translated by Various ...
    ‘This new generation of Latin American writers has exchanged history for memory, dictators for narcos and political engagement for gender and class consciousness.’ El PaísTen years on from the first Bogotá 39 selection, which brought writers such as Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Alejandro Zambra and Junot Díaz to fame, comes this story collection showcasing thirty-nine exceptional new talents. Chosen by ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 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

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cremation

    by Rafael Chirbes ...
    Translated by Valerie Miles ...
    An overflowing, mesmeric masterpiece about greed from “one of the most remarkable authors on the Spanish scene” (The Guardian)Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and pools. The booming post-Franco years have left everything up for grabs. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD