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The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria by Jos� Donoso 9780811232241
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.02All of a sudden, Blanca Arias has it all. The daughter of middling Nicaraguan diplomats posted to Madrid, she marries, at the age of 19, the equally young and passionate Marquess of Loria, her... -
Vera Kelly Lost and Found by Rosalie Knecht
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Spring 1971. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cosy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max's estranged family in Los Angeles. Max's parents are divorcing - her father is... -
Empty Words by Annie McDermott 9781911508502
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.94An eccentric novelist decides to go back to basics on his journey of self- improvement: he will strip out the literary aspect of his writing and simply improve his handwriting. The novelist begins to... -
Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht 9780857308108
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp... -
Invasion of the Spirit People by Juan Pablo Villalobos
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.50Juan Pablo Villalobos's fifth novel adopts a gentle, fable-like tone, approaching the problem of racism from the perspective that any position as idiotic as xenophobia can only be fought with sheer... -
Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya 9780811219174
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.94The tyrant of Horacio Castellanos Moya's ambitious new novel is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez - known as the Warlock - who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An... -
You Glow in the Dark Liliana Colanzi 9781836750048
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Do you glow in the dark?' In 1987, an unsecured source of radiotherapy was stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiania, Brazil, resulting in four deaths and 249 contaminations. Liliana Colanzi's... -
Lucas Arruda: Deserto-Modelo Lucas Arruda 9781644230411
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.23The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Brazilian painter Lucas Arruda elucidates the artist's intricate, meditative compositions.Arruda has gained critical acclaim for atmospheric paintings... -
Anything but Novel: Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative by Jennie Irene Daniels 9780817361075
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The first in-depth study in English to analyze post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships and authoritarian regimes During neoliberal reforms... -
Anything but Novel: Pushing the Margins in Latin American Post-Utopian Historical Narrative by Jennie Irene Daniels 9780817321734
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The first in-depth study in English to analyze post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. During neoliberal... -
Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.12A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous... -
People in the Room by Norah Lange 9781911508229
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house opposite her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled... -
Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81'Astonishing' Herald, Books of the Year'Sublime' Irish Times, Book of the Year'Wonderful' Guardian, Books of the YearDuring a sweltering South American summer, a family convenes for dinner at a... -
I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me by Juan Pablo Villalobos 9781911508489
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95'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... -
Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972 by Alejandra Pizarnik
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.03Revered by the likes of Octavio Paz and Roberto Bolano, Alejandra Pizarnik is still a hidden treasure in the U.S. Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 comprises all of her middle to late... -
Perpetual Law 9781646053384
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.66From Latin America's literary prankster Mario Bellatin: a novella that puzzles from the first page with its liminal, Lynchian atmosphere. In an unnamed country by the sea, a grieving kleptomaniac... -
Battles in the Desert (40th Anniversary Edition) by Jose Emilio Pacheco
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.24This landmark novella-one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times-offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural... -
I Don't Care by Ágota Kristóf 9780241774052
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Never before translated short stories by the legendary Agota Kristof 'One of the 20th century's greatest writers' Camilla Grudova'Pure genius' Max PorterI don't care: it's not even pretty. The song... -
Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America by Hector Hoyos
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Can rubber trees, silicone dolls, corpses, soil, subatomic particles, designer shoes, and discarded computers become the protagonists of contemporary literature-and what does this tell us about the... -
Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America by Hector Hoyos 9780231193047
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.62Can rubber trees, silicone dolls, corpses, soil, subatomic particles, designer shoes, and discarded computers become the protagonists of contemporary literature-and what does this tell us about the... -
The Translator’s Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction by Professor or Dr. Heather Cleary 9781501353697
Booksplease Price: £90.57At the intersection of translation studies and Latin American literary studies, The Translator's Visibility examines contemporary novels by a cohort of writers - including prominent figures such as... -
Reinhardt's Garden by Mark Haber 9781566895620
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31At the turn of the twentieth century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez... -
Owlish by Dorothy Tse
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.87In the mountainous city of Nevers, there lives a professor of literature called Q. He has a dull marriage and a lacklustre career, but also a scrumptious collection of antique dolls locked away in... -
Mephisto's Waltz: Selected Short Stories by Sergio Pitol 9781941920831
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.96"One of Mexico's most culturally complex and composite writers." Publishers WeeklyFrom the renowned Mexican literary master and author of the Trilogy of Memory (Deep Vellum) comes Mephisto's Waltz,... -
Saint Sebastian's Abyss by Mark Haber
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31"What I wanted more than anything was to be standing beside Schmidt, in concert with Schmidt, at the foot of Saint Sebastian's Abyss along with Schmidt, hands cupped to the sides of our faces,... -
Target in the Night by Ricardo Piglia 9781941920169
RRP: £13.00Booksplease Price: £9.32One of the BBC's Ten Books to Read (December 2015) "Ricardo Piglia may be the best Latin American writer to have appeared since the heyday of Gabriel Garcia Marquez." -- Kirkus Reviews "Piglia... -
The Plains by Federico Falco 9781913867928
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59After a loss, a year in the country: four seasons to transform a garden and a self.'In the city the notion of the hours of the day, of the passage of time, is lost. In the countryside that is... -
The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverLeni crossed her arms, said nothing, and watched the fight unfold. She was like a bored onlooker at a boxing trial, wasting no energy on the... -
Texas: The Great Theft by Carmen Boullosa 9781941920008
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.80"Mexico's greatest woman writer."--Roberto Bolano "A luminous writer ...Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"--Miami Herald An imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge... -
A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti by Juan Carlos Onetti
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.58A DREAM COME TRUE collects the complex stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin... -
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 9780811229074
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.64Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba-the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people-and the...