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  • My Tender Matador

    by Pedro Lemebel ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    As Chile descends into chaos, two disparate souls begin "an odd-couple romance, in the tradition of Kiss of the Spider Woman or The Crying Game" ( Kirkus Reviews).It is the spring of 1986, and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of Santiago's many poor neighborhoods, a man known as the Queen of the Corner embroiders linens for the wealthy. A hopeless and lonely ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mongolian Conspiracy

    by Rafael Bernal ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A gripping and hilarious 1960s Mexico City noirOnly a couple of days before the state visit of the President of the United States, Filiberto García — an impeccably groomed "gun for hire," ex-Mexican revolutionary, and classic anti-hero — is recruited by the Mexican police to discover how much truth there might be to KGB and FBI reports of a Chinese-Mongolian plot to assassinate the Soviet and ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • Paradise Travel

    A Novel

    by Jorge Franco ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    From one of Colombia's leading novelists, a tragicomic story of unrequited love and a view of New York through the wide eyes of an illegal immigrantParadise Travel recounts the adventures of Marlon Cruz, a naïve young man from Medellín, Colombia, who agrees to accompany the beautiful, ambitious woman he loves to New York. On their first night in Queens, Marlon and Reina lose each other, thus ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Senselessness

    by Horacio Castellanos Moya ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache.A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • The She-Devil in the Mirror

    by Horacio Castellanos Moya ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    Salvadorean society is shocked by the gruesome murder of a young upper-class woman, and no one more so than her best friend Laura. In her first-person solo narration, Laura rattles on and on about her disbelief and horror at the evils all around her—but who’s that in the mirror?Laura Rivera can’t believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her ... Read more

    $17.49 CAD

  • The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira

    by César Aira, Katherine Silver ...
    Aira's latest concerns a reluctant but powerful doctor who finally decides to use his healing powers to help a hopeless patient.César Aira’s newest novel in English is not about a conventional doctor. Single,in his forties, and poor, Dr. Aira is a skeptic. His personality — his weaknesses,whims, and pet peeves — is summed up in a series of digressions and regressions but he has a very special gift ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • Cuckold

    by Horacio Castellanos Moya ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    Horacio Castellanos Moya’s new novel, a harrowing tale of a 1970s political coup in El Salvador and the world of lucha libre (“An intense writer, whose short novels take fierce satiric hold of a fictional concept and squeeze and squeeze.” —James Wood, The New Yorker)Cuckold is a savage, often comic, literary thriller that takes us to the heart of Salvadoran politics and society during the 1970s, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition)

    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    by José Emilio Pacheco ...
    This heart-breaking novella is a key work of 20th-century dystopian Mexican literature and sadly all too apropos todayThis landmark novella—one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times—offers a child’s-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in “the year of polio, foot-and-mouth disease, floods.” A middle-class ... Read more

    $12.89 CAD

  • Artforum

    by César Aira ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    One man’s obsession with Artforum magazine takes us on a hilarious journey to the ultimate meaning of the very creation of artArtforum is certainly one of César Aira’s most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his compulsion to collect Artforum magazine, this is not about art so much as it is about passionate obsession. At first we follow ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

  • The Rest is Silence

    by Carla Guelfenbein ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    As the adults sit down to gossip over a long wedding lunch and the rest of the children rush off to play, a young boy slips out of sight beneath the table. Tommy is twelve years old but his weak heart prevents him from joining his cousins' games, so he sets his MP3 player to record the voices chattering above him. But then the conversation turns to his mother's death and he overhears something he ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • Festival & Game of the Worlds

    by César Aira ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    Oddly twinned masterpieces by one of the greatest fabulists of any age: past, present, or 40,000 years in the futureIn Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he’s brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled: Why? Half-blind and terminally cranky, she does nothing but complain, despite ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • False Calm

    A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia

    by María Sonia Cristoff ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    "A bold, beautiful book."—The New York Times"A marvelous chronicle."—Publishers WeeklyPart reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm is the breakout work by Argentinian author María Sonia Cristoff. Writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia, Cristoff returns home to chronicle the ghost towns left behind by the oil boom. In prose that showcases her sharp powers of ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus