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  • The Fragility of Bodies

    Translated by Miranda France ...
    by Sergio Olguín ...
    The first in a series of novels by Olguín starring the journalist Veronica Rosenthal. It is set in Buenos-Aires and has been made into a TV series currently showing in Argentina.Veronica is a beautiful and successful young journalist with a healthy appetite for bourbon and married men. She is a fascinating and complicated heroine, driven by a sense of justice but also by lust and ambition.Sensual ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Best Enemy

    by Sergio Olguin ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    Series Book 4 - The Veronica Rosenthal Mysteries
    The fourth in Olguin’s Buenos Aires thriller series starring the gutsy, earthy yet vulnerable investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal. A former director of the magazine where she works and his ex-partner have been executed in cold blood. The authorities are trying to pass the murders off as a burglary gone wrong. Veronica has her doubts.The magazine’s investigation of a high-level corruption ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Foreign Girls

    by Sergio Olguin ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    Series Book 2 - Veronica Rosenthal Mystery
    Veronica is a successful young Buenos Aires journalist, beautiful, unattached, with a healthy appetite for bourbon, married men and, on occasion, foreign women. She is a fascinating and complicated heroine, driven by a sense of justice but also by lust and ambition.The second in a series of three by Olguín, following on from the acclaim for Fragility of Bodies. The Financial Times selected it as ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • There Are No Happy Loves

    by Sergio Olguin ...
    Translated by Miranda France ...
    Series Book 3 - Veronica Rosenthal Mystery
    The third in Olguin’s Buenos Aires thriller series starring the gutsy, raunchy investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal.Haunted by nightmares of her past, Veronica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all his family, is convinced that his wife and child have in fact survived and that his wife has abducted their child. Then a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    by Andrea Yaryura Clark ...
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  • Pereira Maintains

    by Antonio Tabucchi ...
    Translated by Patrick Creagh ...
    Tabucchi’s masterpiece “conjures a state between waking and dreaming” (The New York Times)Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose anti-fascist fervor is as strong as Pereira’s apolitical languor. Eventually, breaking out of the shell of his ... Read more

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  • The Whispering City

    by Sara Moliner ...
    Translated by Mara Faye Lethem ...
    Winner of an English PEN 'PEN Translates!' award.Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in the exclusive Tibidabo district, the police scramble to seize control of the investigation. Ana Martí Noguer, an eager young journalist, is ... Read more

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  • The Dead

    by Mark Oldfield ...
    Series Book 3 - Vengeance of Memory
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  • Mexico City Noir

    Translated by Achy Obejas ...
    by Eduardo Antonio Parra, Bernardo Fernández ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Latin American noir at its finest. "[A] diverse collection of stories which reflect the harshness and also the brittle brilliance of life in Mexico City."— MostlyFiction Book ReviewsAkashic Books's acclaimed series of original noir anthologies has set a high standard for portraying cities and their neighborhoods in all their dark and violent splendor. Now, " Mexico City Noir surpasses that ... Read more

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  • Battles in the Desert & Other Stories

    by José Emilio Pacheco ...
    Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.Seven stories depict harsh realities of life in urban Mexico and the tragedies of childhood innocence betrayed. ... Read more

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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

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  • Cuba on the Verge

    12 Writers on Continuity and Change in Havana and Across the Country

    Edited by Leila Guerriero ...
    Spanning politics and art, music and baseball, Cuba on the Verge is a timely look at a society's profound transformation—from inside and outChange looms in Cuba.Just ninety miles from United States shores yet inaccessible to most Americans until recently, Cuba fascinates as much as it confounds. Images of the Buena Vista Social Club, wild nights at the Tropicana, classic cars, and bearded rebels ... Read more

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