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  • Lexicon of Affinities
    Lexicon of Affinities
    Vitale, Ida
    A prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos.With entries as varied as ‘elbow’, ‘Ophelia’, ‘progress’, the painter Giorgio Morandi, ‘chess’, ‘Eulalia’ (a friend of the author’s aunt), and ‘unicorn’, Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sh...

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  • Plains, The
    Plains, The
    Falco, Federico
    After a loss, a year in the country: four seasons to transform a garden and a self.'In the city the notion of the hours of the day, of the passage of time, is lost. In the countryside that is impossible,' our narrator tells us. In this remote house and garden, time is almost palpable; it goes by without haste and brings into sharp relief even the tiniest details: insects, the s...

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  • Time of the Flies
    Time of the Flies
    Piñeiro, Claudia
    Life after crime from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Elena KnowsFifteen years after killing her husband’s lover, Inés is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her old friend Manca is out now too, and they’ve started a business – FFF, or Females, Fumigation, and Flies – dedicated to pest control and private investigation, by women, for women....

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  • Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
    Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
    López Peiró, Belén
    A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth.In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. Belén López Peiró places us squarely in the tenderest of times?young teenagehood, in a home about to be ruptured by sexual assault. In this home, for this young woman, your assailant is your uncle, and also a police commissioner. The pe...

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  • Dark Side of Skin, The
    Dark Side of Skin, The
    Tenório, Jeferson
    Life under Brazil’s brutal “cordial racism” comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons.How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for himself in the objects his father left behind: the layers that make up his life, and that of his parents, and the circumstances, geographies, and wounds that shaped them all. It’s an archaeology...

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  • Delivery, The
    Delivery, The
    García Robayo, Margarita
    From the acclaimed author of Fish Soup, a wickedly self-aware novel of family, memory, and possibility just this side of the uncanny.A tolerable, ordinary life: an adequate, if boring, freelance job; reliably irritating video calls with your sister; half-hearted plans for the future (a writing residency, a child); and, in the middle of your half-furnished apartment, an enormous...

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  • A Little Luck
    A Little Luck
    Piñeiro, Claudia
    From the author of Elena Knows , finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and isolation. She is not the same?not her name or voice, not even the color of her eyes. The neighborhood looks different too, but she’s still the same woman and it’s still the same pl...

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  • Fresh Dirt from the Grave
    Fresh Dirt from the Grave
    Rivero, Giovanna
    Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science—this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet.In Fresh Dirt from the Grave, a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.” It is this collision of harshness and tenderness that animates Giovanna Rivero’s short stories, where no degree of darkness (buried bodies, lost children, wild paroxysms of violen...

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  • Remains, The
    Remains, The
    Glantz, Margo
    After her ex-husband dies unexpectedly, Nora García travels to the funeral, back to a Mexican village from her past and the art and music of their life together.The way you hold a cello, the way light lands on a Caravaggio, the way the castrati hit notes like no one else could?a lifetime of conversations about art and music and history unfolds for Nora García as she and a crowd...

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  • Elena Knows
    Elena Knows
    Piñeiro, Claudia
    SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the se...

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  • Feebleminded
    Feebleminded
    Harwicz, Ariana
    Following the international success of Die, My Love (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018), Ariana Harwicz again takes us into the darkest recesses of the imagination with this delirious, furious account of a mother and daughter bound by chaos as much as love. Driven to the edge by the men in their lives, they oscillate between erratic bursts of housework, laz...

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  • Slum Virgin
    Slum Virgin
    Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela
    “Queer writing at its most exhilarating.” ?Times Literary SupplementThe slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police, sex workers, thieves, drug dealers, and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed a ‘revelation for contemporary literature’ and ‘pure dynamite’ (Andrés Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century & Talking to Ourse...

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  • Distance Between Us, The
    Distance Between Us, The
    Cisneros, Renato
    If I succeed in understanding who he was before I was born, perhaps I will be able to understand who I am now that he is dead…In this sprawling family saga stretching across Latin America, a son embarks on a journey to understand his complex relationship with his father and how it shaped the man he is today. Recalling Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and ...

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  • Tender
    Tender
    Harwicz, Ariana
    The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's "Involuntary Trilogy" finds us on familiar, disquieting ground. Under the spell of a mother's madness, the French countryside transforms into a dreamscape of interconnected imagery: animals, desire, the functions of the body. Most troublingly: the comfort of a teenage son. Scorning the bourgeois mores and conventionality of th...

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  • Never Did the Fire
    Never Did the Fire
    Eltit, Diamela
    Never Did the Fire unfolds in the humdrum of everyday working class existence, making the afterlife of an agitator that of anyone living next door. For one old couple, brought together years ago in an underground cell, the revolution has ended in a small apartment, a grinding job caring for the bodies of the unwell well-to-do, and all the aches and pains that go with a long lif...

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  • Byobu
    Byobu
    Vitale, Ida
    Byobu is an intimate work filled with poetry and knowledge, densely interwoven without pretension, born of a single force: curiosity. As a book, it’s representative of the modesty and complexity of Vitale’s poetic universe. Byobu (from the Japanese word byobu meaning literally a ‘wind wall’, i.e. a folding screen) is the protagonist in this treatise on the senses comprised of t...

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  • National Telepathy, Thec
    National Telepathy, Thec
    Larraquy, Roque

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  • Dislocations
    Dislocations
    Molloy, Sylvia

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  • Telepatía nacional, La
    Telepatía nacional, La
    Larraquy, Roque
    En septiembre de 1933 desembarca en el puerto de Buenos Aires un cargamento con diecinueve indios oriundos de la Amazonia peruana. Es una entrega de la Peruvian Rubber Company para Amado Dam, miembro del selecto comité encargado de la creación del primer Parque Etnográfico del país, un sitio destinado a exhibir ejemplares de las distintas razas humanas para deleite del público ...

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  • Tierra fresca de su tumba
    Tierra fresca de su tumba
    Rivero, Giovanna
    Náufragos, origami, posesión y ciencia: estos cuentos encarnan el punto de encuentro entre los horrores contemporáneos y los terrores antiguos.Seis relatos de una belleza oscura que laten con temáticas perturbadoras: la legitimidad de la venganza, el incesto como medio de supervivencia, brujería indígena versus tradición japonesa, el cuerpo como la víctima fatal que habitamos. ...

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  • You Shall Leave Your Land
    You Shall Leave Your Land
    Cisneros, Renato / Petch, Fionn
    Renato Cisneros's great-great-grandmother Nicolasa bore seven children by her long-term secret love, who was also her priest, raising them alone in nineteenth century Peru. More than a century later, Renato, the descendent of that clandestine affair, struggles to wring information about his origins out of recalcitrant relatives, whose foibles match the adventures and dalliances...

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  • Desarticulaciones
    Desarticulaciones
    Molloy, Sylvia
    ¿Cómo mantener una amistad intacta cuando el Alzheimer se va llevando consigo las bases del lenguaje, la memoria y las experiencias compartidas?La narradora visita casi diariamente a ML., con quien comparte una estrecha amistad y ahora padece mal de Alzheimer. A partir de esos encuentros y los fragmentos de memoria de ML. va construyendo un relato poderosamente conmovedor sobre...

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  • Forgery, The
    Forgery, The
    Barrera, Ave
    A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very intimidating twins—The Forgery pays homage to greats like Juan Rulfo and Luis Barragán, traversing late 20th-century Guadalajara with the exuberance and eccentricity of an 18th-century picaresque. ...

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  • Here Be Icebergs
    Here Be Icebergs
    Adaui, Katya
    The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another un...

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  • A Musical Offering
    A Musical Offering
    Sagasti, Luis
    In his final version of the Variations, Glenn Gould introduces a subtle, almost imperceptible change, breaking with the nocturnal circularity. As if he didn’t want the Count to sleep after all, condemning Goldberg to inhabit that wakeful night forever. The change occurs in the last beat of the final aria: an ornament that concludes the recording. Gould’s great contribution lies...

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  • Havana Year Zero
    Havana Year Zero
    Suárez, Karla
    Sex, lies, and scientific history collide in 1993 Havana.It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That’s how low we sank.The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc.For Julia, a mathematics...

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  • Fireflies
    Fireflies
    Sagasti, Luis
    How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti’s bold and original attempt to answer these questions.Roaming across time and geography, he lights on an eclectic array of characters and events that at first glance seem unrelated, and teases out their stories to reveal unexpected points of contact between the...

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  • Fish Soup
    Fish Soup
    García Robayo, Margarita
    "...a gorgeous, blackly humorous look into the lives of Colombians struggling to find their place in society, both at home and abroad.” ?Publishers Weekly, starred review In two novellas and seven short stories, Fish Soup blends cynicism and beauty with a rich vein of dark humour."Waiting for a Hurricane" follows a girl obsessed with escaping both her life and her country. Emot...

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  • Puertas Demasiado Pequenas
    Puertas Demasiado Pequenas
    Barrera, Ave
    José Federico Burgos es un pintor frustrado devenido falsificador, atrapado en un esplendor surrealista y algo alarmante que involucra una obra maestra flamenca, un vagabundo pícaro y dos hermanos mellizos tan intimidantes como ingeniosos. Él bebe demasiado alcohol, deambula por la zona y, cada día que pasa sin lograr copiar la pintura, se acerca un poco más hacia lo que realme...

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  • Rooftop, The
    Rooftop, The
    Trias, Fernanda
    In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. 'The world is this house', says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness.As Clara's connection to the outside is stripped away-the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known b...

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