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  • The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories

    Edited by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day.Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well as giants of Spanish ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • God is Round

    Tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs, and Scandals of the World's Favorite Game

    by Juan Villoro, Thomas Bunstead ...
    DESCRIPTIONA brilliant, kaleidoscopic exploration of soccer—and the passion, hopes, rivalries, superstitions, and global solidarity it inspires—from award-winning author and Mexico’s leading sports journalist, Juan Villoro. On a planet where FIFA has more members than the United Nations and the World Cup is watched by more than three billion people, football is more than just a game. As revered ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Things We've Seen

    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    by Agustín Fernández Mallo ...
    In The Things We've Seen, his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, Agustín Fernández Mallo captures the strangeness and interconnectedness of human existence in the twenty-first century. A writer travels to the small uninhabited island of San Simón, used as a Franquist concentration camp during the Spanish Civil War, and witnesses events which impel him on a wild goose chase across ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

    by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga ...
    Translated by Thomas Bunstead, Daniel Hahn ...
    A New Scientist Book of the YearPrehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all, or something simpler. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsuaga, one of the world’s leading palaeontologists and a super-smart ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Book of All Loves

    by Agustín Fernández Mallo ...
    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a composite image of love takes form, one that moves outwards beyond the realm of relationships and into metaphysics, geology, linguistics, AI.Years previously, a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Lying

    by Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel ...
    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    Wherever there is life, there are lies.Slick-suited politicians lie on the podium, ready to tell voters what they want to hear. Cheating lovers, swindling businessmen, double-crossing villains – all liars. But nature lies too – the cheetah crouching in the tall grass waiting to pounce, its spots and straw-coloured fur blending in with its surroundings, the chameleon with its adaptable skin, the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Red Ants

    by José Pergentino ...
    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    A literary triumph by one of Mexico's most promising young authors, Red Ants is the first ever literary translation from the Sierra Zapotec. This vibrant collection of short stories by Pergentino José updates magical realism for the 21st century. Red Ants paints a candid picture of indigenous Mexican life -- an essential counterpoint to cultural products of the colonial gaze. José's fantastical ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Optic Nerve

    by Maria Gainza ...
    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    "In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world–class painters along with glimpses of her life, braiding the two into an illuminating whole." ―The New York Times Book Review, Notable Book of the Year and Editors' ChoiceThe narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Let No One Sleep

    by Juan José Millás ...
    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    An odyssey of operatic proportions, featuring an obsession-fueled taxi driverAfter Lucía loses her job at an IT firm, she has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment’s air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the neighbor responsible for the music. Calaf is the man’s name, which also happens to be the name of the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Atom Heart Mother

    A Novel

    by Agustín Fernández Mallo ...
    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    A son re-creates his dying father’s journey from fifty years ago, illuminating a strange, beguiling portrait of a century of Spanish history, and the fading memories of their relationship.In this captivating tightrope act of autofiction, Agustín Fernández Mallo shares the story of two parallel journeys taken by a father and a son—each separated by half a century of Spanish history and their own ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • 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

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Thousands of Eyes

    A Novel

    by Maximiliano Barrientos ...
    Translated by Thomas Bunstead ...
    Mad Max meets J.G. Ballard in this gonzo, maximalist, high-octane speculative horror novel set against a post-apocalyptic Bolivia in thrall to a speed-worshiping cultIn 1970s Bolivia, a man and his young son are on the run from accolades of a velocity cult hellbent on using their Plymouth Road Runner to unleash a primordial entity known as The Dream. In 1990, a teenage metalhead, whose brother ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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