Buenos Aires: Alfaguara, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (Hispánica), 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 255p., wrps. "El ojo y la flor" centers around Juana and Andrea, sisters who live in a future world where fresh water is gone -- The rivers are dry and the canals are full of stranded ships..... More about El ojo y la flor
Sevilla: Editorial Guantanamera, (ciencia Ficción), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 461p., wrps. "Proyecto ángel" is a science fiction novel centering around Lídel Xactos, who returns to his life as a mercenary after a hundred and fifty years away from fighting. Meanwhile his son, Angel Xactos, leaves Earth to travel to another..... More about Proyecto ángel
Bogotá: Penguin Random House, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 174p., wrps. "El tiempo del ruido" is an award winning crime novel by Colombian writer Juan David Aguilar Ariza. Previously, Aguilar Ariza has won the short story contest for the virtual review i.letrada.co with his short story "Vuelta al mundo en bicicleta"..... More about El tiempo del ruido
Lima: Editorial Eureka, El Portal Celeste, 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 610p., wrps. In "Sangre de patriota", the Chilean Army has occupied the capital of Peru after winning the war. However, a series of murders of Chilean soldiers have made the military commanders uneasy. In the occupied city, stories unfold: A.... More about Sangre de patriota
Buenos Aires: Mansalva (Colección Poesía y Ficción Latinoamericana), 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 125p., wrps. "El presidente" is a novel by César Aira that chronicles a man's yearning to be president. Aira is the author of more than 100 books, including: "El pequeño monje budista", "La vida nueva", "Dante y Reina"..... More about El presidente
México, D.F. Ediciones Era, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 100p., wrps. In "Entre los indios", the devil decides to appear to a group of Indians. His appearance, he thinks, will cause panic. But apparently, he's wrong. On the night he chooses to appear, there's a banquet. Men and women eat and..... More about Entre los indios
Buenos Aires: Mansalva, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. 74p., wrps. "La invención del tren fantasma" is comprised of three micro-stories that present a subtle and non-demagogic critique of capitalism and its processes of dehumanization. More about La invención del tren fantasma
Buenos Aires: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, (Ser. Ficciónes; 79.), 2006. first edition. Paperback. 143p. [Novel. Aira has published over 50 works of fiction and literary criticism. His recent novels include “Mil gotas” (2003), “Las noches de Flores” (2004), “Yo era una chica moderna” (2004), “Yo era una niña de siete años”..... More about La cena
Buenos Aires: Mansalva, 2019. Second Edition. Paperback. 77p., wrps. [Novella. A leading contemporary Argentine author, Aira won the Premio Konex in 1994 and 2004, and a Guggenheim grant in 1996. His over 50 novels include ”Yo era una niña de siete años” (2005), “Cómo me reí” (2005), “El pequeño monje..... More about La vida nueva
Barcelona: Literatura Random House, 2019. First Edition. 541p., wrps. "Diez novelas de César Aira" brings together ten novels by César Aira, which were originally printed by small or underrated publishers. The volume includes the works: "Cecil Taylor", "La costurera y el viento", "Las conversaciones", "El divorcio", "Los dos payasos", "El..... More about Diez novelas de César Aira
México, D.F. Distribuciones Fontamara, (Col. Cisne; 131.), 2010. 1st ed. Paperback. 173p., glossary. Prologue by David Apolinar Rincón Pérez. More about Los perros hambrientos
Barcelona: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. 382p., boards. "Largo pétalo de mar" takes place in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, when the young doctor Víctor Dalmau and his pianist friend Roser Bruguera are forced to leave Barcelona, go into exile, and cross the Pyrenees..... More about Largo pétalo de mar. Un viaje a través de la guerra civil española
Buenos Aires: Campo de Niebla, 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 156p., wrps. In "Lima sur", a ghostwriter is hired by a woman to write her memoirs. The commission takes him to the Southern Cone of Lima, where he is carried away by causality, submerging himself in the neighborhoods and streets, market... More about Lima sur
Barcelona: Tusquets Editores, (Colección Andanzas ; 888), 2016. 5th Edition. Paperback. 646p., wrps. "Patria" is a best-selling novel written by award winning Spanish writer Fernando Aramburu, who has published the novels "Fuegos con limón" (1996), "Los ojos vaciós" (2000), "Bami sin sombra" (2005), "La gran Marivián" (2013), and "Áviadas pretensiones"..... More about Patria
Bogotá: Ediciones B, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 335p., wrps. "Kibo" revolves around Laura Andrews, a successful New York journalist who travels to Africa to recover from the emotional impact of her divorce. At the summit of Kilimanjaro, she stumbles upon something of enormous anthropological value that reveals the cause of... More about Kibo
Quito: El Conejo, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 188p., wrps. "El espía, la carnada, el precio" is a violent and complex novel centering around a network of mysteries and a game that confuses art with the real world. Written by Sandra Araya, who is also the author of "Orange", "La familia..... More about El espía, la carnada, el precio
Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 461p., wrps. "Antes de los años terribles" is a novel centering around Isaiah, whose life began again the day he arrived in Barcelona as a boy and left his old world behind. A long time has passed, and he's built a new life..... More about Antes de los años terribles
Quito: Editorial El Conejo, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 185p., wrps. In "Amanecer de fuego", a Turkish man arrives at a lost town in the central inter-Andean region. There he falls in love with the daughter of the most powerful landowner. With determination and tenacity, he manages to overcome all obstacles... More about Amanecer de fuego
Buenos Aires: Letras del Sur Editora, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. 159p., wrps. "El íntimo traidor" takes place in two towns south of Buenos Aires, centering around Ramón and Lario, two half-brothers separated in childhood and reunited many years later. The mystery of their lives involves a man imprisoned at the..... More about El íntimo traidor
México, D.F: Alfaguara, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. 342p., wrps. "1492. Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla" is a novel that begins in the summer of 1391 with the assault on the Jewish quarter of Seville, and concludes with the voyage of Columbus to the Indies in August 1492..... More about 1492. Vida y tiempos de Juan Cabezón de Castilla
Mexico City: Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. 405p., wrps. "La zona del silencio" is an enigmatic region of northern Mexico in the middle of the desert. There meteorites and cosmic dust continually fall; It is even said that aliens visit it and that people have disappeared there... More about La zona del silencio
Sevilla: Editorial Guantanamera, (Narrativa), 2017. First Edition. Paperback. 231p., wrps. "El milagro de los siete mares" is a novel full of of empires, an announced savior, naval battles, fortune tellers, incandescent serpents, geniuses, dreams, secrets, and a ruined world that's been covered by water. Civilization had to start again from... More about El milagro de los siete mares
Buenos Aires: Libros del Zorzal, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 222p., wrps. In "Los caimanes", Felisa Morel is a beautiful, intelligent, and passionate woman who also suffers from anorexia. On the night of August 19, 2000, she appears dead in her country house outside of Buenos Aires. She was married to... More about Los caimanes
Madrid: La Esfera de los Libros, (Novela), 2019. Second Edition. Hardcover. 416p., boards. "Sakura" is a novel that begins in 1990, when Japanese billionaire Ryoei Saito acquired The Portrait of Dr. Gachet, by Vincent Van Gogh, at an auction for the largest amount ever paid for a painting: $82.5 million... More about Sakura
Granada: Cuadernos del Vigía, (Ediciones a la carta), 2019. First Edition. Paperback. 299p., wrps. "El laberinto mágico. Vol. V, Campo del Moro" is the fifth part of a saga by Max Aub called The Magic Labyrinth, which explores the Spanish Civil War and its consequences through both reality and fiction..... More about El laberinto mágico. Vol. V, Campo del Moro