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  • The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

    A Novel

    by Luis Sepúlveda ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    “Gripping and passionate . . . keenly recounted . . . full of poetry.”—New York TimesNow in a beautiful new edition, the spellbinding classic tale of man and nature, honor, and adventure, in which the peaceful life of an aging, book-loving widower in the Ecuadorean jungle is upended when an ignorant tourist provokes a mother ocelot.Antonio José Bolivar Proaño lives quietly in a river town in the ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Praise of Love

    by Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    The renowned French philosopher's "ode to love's power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain" ( Publishers Weekly).In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud's famous line "love needs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Butterfly House

    by Teresa Solana, Peter Bush ...
    No money, no future – a motive for murder?The economic crisis has hit Barcelona hard, and a personal crisis might be about to hit Deputy Inspector Norma Forrester’s family.When a body is found in the grounds of a former grand villa,now a student squat, Norma finds the case uncomfortably close to home. The downturn has turned the city into a breeding ground for crime, or is the motive more personal ... Read more

    $6.43 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tango for a Torturer

    by Daniel Chavarría ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    A former revolutionary plots revenge, in this "superior crime novel" from an Edgar Award–winning author "as adept at comedy as he is at tragedy" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, Cuba. There, he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student with great charm and panache working the hotels—and discovers that his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time of Silence

    by Luis Martín-Santos ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya—available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored.This novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of the first decade of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Winds of the Night

    by Joan Sales, Paul Preston ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    The sequel to Joan Sales' great novel of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory, this follow-up takes a provocative look at post-war Catalonia through the eyes of a chaplain struggling with his faith in the aftermath of brutal destruction.Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales's acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory. It ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Film (3,000 Meters)

    by Victor Catala ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Catalan Literature Series
    Turn-of-the-Century Barcelona comes to life in this rediscovered classic from one of Catalan's most beloved female authors ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories

    by Teresa Solana ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    1.Ingenious, always witty and sometimes gruesome short stories by one of Spain’s best-known crime writers. Echoes of memorable stories by Roald Dahl, like The Skin or Lamb for the Slaughter (of Hitchcock Presents fame). Or Stephen King’s Under the Weather and That Bus is Another World.A selection of these stories won the prestigious Catalan 2107 Roc Boronat prize and another was shortlisted for ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Exiled from Almost Everywhere

    by Juan Goytisolo ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Spanish Literature
    In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist—the Parisian "Monster of Le Sentier"—is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite collection of computer monitors. His curiosity piqued, he uses the screens at hand to explore the multiple ways war and terrorism are hyped in the Hereafter of his old life where ... Read more

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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

    $14.99 USD

  • Why, Why, Why?

    by Quim Monzó ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Everything’s made to be broken in this wickedly funny story collection from Catalan’s greatest contemporary writer. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Never Talk About It

    by Véronique Côté, Steve Gagnon, Marie-Claude Plourde ...
    Translated by Lisa Carter, Allison M. Charette, Anissa Bachan, Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo, Melissa Bull, Farrah Gillani, Daniel Grenier, Benjamin Hedley, Natalia Hero, Cassidy Hildebrand, Aleshia Jensen, Pierre-Luc Landry, G. Lefebvre, Tony Malone, Anna Matthews, Riteba McCallum, Peter McCambridge, Felicia Mihali, Jessica Moore, Tom Moore, Guillaume Morissette, Rhonda Mullins, Jean-Paul Murray, Dimitri Nasrallah, Peter Bush, Lori Saint-Martin, Ros Schwartz, Jacob Siefring, Neil Smith, Pablo Strauss, J.C. Sutcliffe, Michèle Thibeau, Carly Rosalie Vandergriendt, David Warriner, Elizabeth West, Emily Wilson ...
    Cupcakes, panda bears, break-ups, wearing sunglasses at night... The local and the universal come together in these 37 short stories, brought into English by different translators from all over the world. This project aims to show there are all kinds of ways to bring across an author's voice in translation… at least 37 of them (one for each story). Translators include literary translation students ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus