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| Francisco Goldman: Say Her Name |
| 2011-08-29 08:30:00 |
Francisco Goldman's fourth novel is based on a real tragedy in which his wife, Aura Estrada, broke her neck while body-surfing along the Mexican coast, and died. She had recently turned 30. They had known each other for four years and would have celebrated their second wedding anniversary if she had lived another month. Read More
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| Quim Monzó: Guadalajara |
| 2011-08-25 08:45:00 |
Three pages into Quim Monzó's new short story collection, the opening tale's seven-year-old protagonist makes a startling discovery: everyone over the age of nine in his family of carpenters is missing the ring finger of his left hand, and it's not by accident. Welcome to "Family Life," which fits within the morbid boundaries of Guadalajara—a realm where fables are subvertedRead More
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| José Saramago: Death with Interruptions |
| 2011-08-22 06:02:00 |
I've just finished José Saramago's Death with Interruptions, a novel which I didn't consider as strong as Blindness, but which I felt, nevertheless, accomplished what it set out to do: which is to transform death into a human experience.
Like Blindness, which captures the shock of a community confronting a sudden plague of sightlessness, Death with Interruptions takes as its subject a cataclysmic
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| Goncalo Tavares: Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique |
| 2011-08-22 05:29:00 |
In the very first scene of this book, a young Lenz Buchmann is instructed by his father to "do" a young servant girl in front of him. The command is issued without qualification, and there is no recourse for Lenz except to follow it. From this incident onward the novel spins forth a philosophy of strength, of power, of competence, of morality, or the lack thereof, that is alienating to say the
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| Gabriel García Márquez: Love in the Time of Cholera |
| 2011-08-22 05:07:00 |
Love in the Time of Cholera was probably one of the first books I read that introduced me to a South American sensibility, having been immersed in a traditional English A-level. That sense of reality slightly altered, not quite magical realism but not life as we know it, despite the faded grandeur and trappings of a post-colonial state.Re-reading it a few years ago, unsurprisingly I struggled to
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| José Saramago: Cain |
| 2011-08-19 10:53:00 |
Abel and Cain have each made an offering to God. Abel's is accepted, Cain's rejected. In a fit of jealousy, Cain murders his brother. When God asks where Abel has got to, Cain replies tetchily, "Am I my brother's keeper?" God discovers the murder, and Cain is punished. He will live, but he will be forever marked, and condemned to wander the earth.Read More
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| Horacio Castellanos Moya: Tyrant Memory |
| 2011-08-17 05:11:00 |
Horacio Castellanos Moya's Tyrant Memory is a book of revolution, of tanks rolling through city streets, of intrigue, imprisonment, and exile, of torn families and firing squads — but it will not for that reason be passed around dorm rooms, nor is it likely to feature on Glenn Beck's old chalkboard. In El Salvador in April 1944, the dictatorship of Maximiliano Herna´ndez Marti´nez, a fascist who
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| Carlos Franz: The Absent Sea |
| 2011-08-12 11:49:00 |
"Where were you Mamá, when all those horrible things were taking place in your city?" This question, put to Laura by her daughter Claudia, is what has drawn The Absent Sea's protagonist back to the fictional town of Pampa Hundida at the start of novelist Carlos Franz's exploration of the turbulent aftermath of Chile's 1973 coup. Read More
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| Gonçalo M. Tavares on man, machines and society |
| 2011-08-12 11:30:00 |
At euronews Elza Gonçalves speaks with Gonçalo M. Tavares on man, machines and society. His book, Learning to Pray in the Age of Technology, is coming out from Dalkey Archive Press this summer. Read More
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| Moacyr Scliar: Kafka’s Leopards |
| 2011-08-12 11:17:00 |
I was going to write a review of Kafka's Leopards by the recently deceased Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar, and then I got around to reading the piece that translator Thomas Beebee wrote for us on Scliar, his writings, and Kafka's Leopards and realized that there was not much enlightenment that I could offer on any of these topics that Thomas had not already covered. So I come to you today,
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