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  • A Dream Come True

    The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

    by Juan Carlos Onetti ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America's greatest authors, and regarded as an inventor of a new form and school of writing.Juan Carlos Onetti's A Dream Come True depicts a sharp, coherent, literary voice, encompassing Onetti's early ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Word of the Speechless

    Selected Stories

    by Julio Ramon Ribeyro ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    Available in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest South American writers of the 20th century.The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • 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

  • Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

    A Course on English Literature

    by Jorge Luis Borges ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar WildeWriting for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Sweet Money

    An Inspector Lascano Mystery

    by Ernesto Mallo ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    Series series An Inspector Lascano Mystery
    1.A novel written by an insider. Mallo is a former militant, pursued by the dictatorship as a member of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, which was later absorbed by the Montoneros guerilla movement.The second crime novel in a trilogy with police Superintendent Lascano. The first two are being made into films in Argentina.Bestselling author, essayist and playwright of Argentine fiction, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.99 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

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Cardboard House

    by Martín Adán ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate novel that presents a stunning series of flashes — scenes, moods, dreams, and weather— as the narrator wanders through Lima.Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The novel presents a stunning series of flashes — scenes, moods, dreams, and weather— as the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • 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

    $12.99 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

    $18.99 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

  • 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

    $16.99 CAD