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Following the chance discovery of certain documents, a historian sets out to solve the mystery surrounding a murder committed in the building where he lived in Mexico City’s Colonia Roma in the autumn... -
From the “Hitchcock of the River Plate” (Corriere della Sera) comes Piñeiro’s third novel, a unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate stories of morality and the search for in... -
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s car... -
After a quarrel, an ageing lawyer leaves his wife and travels from Brasília to the dry, lawless backlands of Brazil’s northeastern plateau, where he grew up. He has vague plans to start a new life, to... -
Hebe Uhart’s Animals tells of piglets that snack on crackers, parrots that rehearse their words at night, southern screamers that lurk at the front door of a decrepit aunt’s house, and, of co... -
prepoems in postspanish and other poems marks the first full-length collection to appear in English by the groundbreaking Ecuadorian poet Jorgenrique Adoum (1926-2009), hailed by Nobel-prize... -
For twenty years, Ilan Stavans has been translating poetry from Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Georgian, and other languages. His versions of Borges, Neruda, Sor Juana... -
Named a “fall 2020 must-read” and one of the “best books of fall 2020” by Time, Vulture, The Boston Globe, Wired, Cosmopolitan, and more. Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerfu... -
Folding and refolding origami frogs, extracting the symmetrical veins from leaves, retreating to an imaginary world in his closet: after Teresa walked out the door one July afternoon in 1994, her son... -
Forgetting. It is one of the great themes of literature, Renzi said as he began his class. To be forgotten; the tragedy of the abandoned lover who knows he is lost to the memory of the one he loves. A... -
The Wind Traveler showcases the mesmerizing storytelling of Alonso Cueto at the top of his career. At the heart of his latest work is a seemingly ordinary man named Ángel, who sells kitchenware... -
The initial idea of this book, according to the author—who is not me, I’m just her pet and her instrument of inspiration—was to write fifteen stories, all in the first person so the reader would feel... -
Lucía and Pablo are Colombian immigrants who’ve built their lives together in the US yet maintain conflicting attitudes toward their homeland and the extent to which it defines their identity. After u... -
A newspaper is spotted several times along the history of literature, but no one has ever seen it. If that newspaper ever existed, then somewhere, at least in some obscure and never-visited archive, s... -
Gabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career by infiltrating Peru’s most dangerous prison, going all in at swingers clubs, inge... -
Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel’s stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for thei... -
“I don’t expect anyone to believe me,” warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he’s kidnapped in a books... -
The Most Fragile Objects, Chimal’s first novel published in translation, tells three stories (maybe two, or just one) of people living secret lives in early 21st-century Mexico. They seem to... -
This multilingual novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out. Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Fran... -
Mara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. -
I woke up late, the sound of rain such a blessing, so merciful this oppressive summer; I had slept well thanks to the drop in temperature, and I almost could have kept sleeping . . . -
Privilege. He could feel the word in his mouth, as it made the same movements it would make to taste and swallow a spoonful of frosting. -
I would like for the names of Robert Alegre, Rodrigo Ávila, Antonio Helguera, Begoña Hernández, Ramiro González Ayón, Giovanni Proiettis, Salvador Zarco, and Martin Zurek to be forever linked to this... -
I Offer My Heart as a Target/Ofrezco mi corazón como una diana, by Johanny Vázquez Paz, introduces the new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, given by the National Poetry Series, and features... -
Sergio Chejfec's The Incompletes, translated by Heather Cleary, is forthcoming from Open Letter Books. We are proud to feature an exclusive preview of the novel in Latin American Literatu...
