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  • Until August

    A novel

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The extraordinary lost novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Retrospective

    A Novel

    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions.The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Shape of the Ruins

    A Novel

    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEA sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez.**The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • From Julio

    Selected Letters of Julio Cortázar, Volume One (1937-1966)

    by Julio Cortázar ...
    Translated by Anne McLean, Sarah Moses ...
    **A collection of letters by one of the greatest writers of the last hundred years, From Julio spans nearly three decades of Cortázar's life."He was, perhaps without trying, the Argentine who made the whole world love him."— Gabriel García Márquez**Julio Cortázar's extraordinary novels and short stories changed the course of 20th-century literature. In this first volume of letters, readers will ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

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  • 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

  • Songs for the Flames

    Stories

    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vásquez.The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence—sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing—but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces.A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

  • Reputations

    by Juan Gabriel Vásquez ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    As Colombia's famed political cartoonist, Javier Mallarino, strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career in the grand Teatro Colón, he contemplates the start of his professional life, and how he set down his oils and took up a pen to begin drawing caricatures for a living. But the celebration has far-reaching consequences: as he leaves the theatre a figure ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Lord of All the Dead

    A nonfiction novel

    by Javier Cercas ...
    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    A deeply personal work of historical interrogation from the acclaimed author of Outlaws. Javier Cercas, “the bard of [the] movement for the recovery of Spain’s suppressed memory” (The New York Times Book Review), unpacks the legacy of the Spanish Civil War by way of his own family’s history.Growing up, Cercas was inculcated with the legend of his beloved great-uncle, Manuel Mena, who died at ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD