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  • The Tango Singer

    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    by Tomás Eloy Martínez ...
    Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel ... Read more

    $11.49 CAD

  • Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It

    by Eduardo Halfon, Anne McLean (translator) ...
    Series Book 3 - Working Titles
    Eduardo Halfon's "Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It" follows closely the departure of a well-off industrialist Jewish family from Guatemala in the early 1980s. The events are seen from the point of view of the naive, inquisitive ten-year-old son. In Anne McLean's vivid translation, the wrenching upheaval of the family's departure emerges as a microcosm of the country's descent into hell. ... Read more

    $2.52 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scandal of the Century

    And Other Writings

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    “The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe.” --Dwight ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Oblivion

    A Memoir

    by Héctor Abad ...
    Translated by Anne McLean, Rosalind Harvey ...
    Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Farm

    by Hector Abad ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms Héctor Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today.Pilar, Eva, and Antonio Ángel are the last heirs of La Oculta, a farm hidden in the mountains of Colombia. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Aside from My Heart, All is Well

    by Héctor Abad ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    His biggest book since Oblivion, Héctor Abad’s humane voice buoys the spirit and reminds us of the value of human connection and the power of art."Mr. Abad’s prose is elastic and alive . . . [His writing] is extravagantly big-hearted."— Dwight Garner on Oblivion, The New York TimesLuis Cordóba, also known as Gordo, leads an unconventional life. His vocation as a priest has not stopped him from ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Even the Darkest Night

    A Terra Alta Investigation

    by Javier Cercas ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    Series Book 1 - A Terra Alta Investigation
    INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • WINNER OF SPAIN’S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE • Barcelona detective Melchor Marín is sent to the countryside to investigate a horrific double murder. Before long, it becomes clear that nothing about the case is quite as it seems in this “sweeping romantic novel in the form of a police procedural” (Wall Street Journal).The first book in the internationally acclaimed series: ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

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  • All the Names of Feliza

    A Novel

    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    A woman’s fierce desire to live by her own rules exacts a tragic price, in this heart-wrenching novel by “the literary grandmaster of Colombia” (New York Review of Books)Feliza is back in Paris, the city where decades ago she took flight into a sculptor’s life. “The first face you make is always your own,” observed her mentor at the academy there. Feliza – who as a child once escaped into the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Stranger to the Moon

    by Evelio Rosero ...
    Translated by Anne McLean, Victor Meadowcroft ...
    A fantastical novel about power and subservience by the great Evelio Rosero, winner of Colombia’s National Literature PrizeThe renowned Colombian writer Evelio Rosero has never been one to shy away from the darker aspects of his nation’s history and society. His magnificent novel Stranger to the Moon portrays a world that seems to exist outside time and place but taps into the dark myths and ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

  • Tono the Infallible

    by Evelio Rosero ...
    Translated by Anne McLean, Victor Meadowcroft ...
    An unforgettable yet humane novel that takes us into the heart of Colombia’s brutal society, by one of the country’s most renowned writersSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 QUEEN SOFIA SPANISH INSTITUTE TRANSLATION PRIZEI was alone when someone pounded on my door. Who could it be?So begins Toño the Infallible, Evelio Rosero’s gripping nov... ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • The Polish Boxer

    by Eduardo Halfon ...
    Translated by Ollie Brock, Thomas Bunstead, Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, Anne McLean ...
    The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon begins as he searches for information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at AuschwitzNew York Times Editors’ Choice * International Latino Book Award FinalistThe Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather’s past and the story behind his ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The Informers

    Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    A brilliant debut from 'one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature' (Mario Vargas Llosa)'For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez, The Informers is a thrilling new discovery' Colm Toibin, Guardian***'***One of this year's outstanding books' Financial TimesWhen Gabriel Santoro publishes his first book, a biography of a Jewish family friend who... ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD