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Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador Horacio Castellanos Moya 9780811225397
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.07An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother's funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos... -
Beyond Bolano: The Global Latin American Novel by Hector Hoyos 9780231168434
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.80Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolano and the fictional work of Cesar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other... -
The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era by Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano 9781477316184
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art-expecially the claim that political freedom can be... -
The Savage Detectives Reread by David Kurnick 9780231194105
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.15The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto... -
Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border by Nuala Finnegan 9780367903640
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Since the early 1990s, the repeated murders of women from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico have become something of a global cause celebre. Cultural Representations of Feminicidio at the US-Mexico Border... -
Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolano by Jeffrey Lawrence 9780190077785
Booksplease Price: £31.52Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolano offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting... -
Hyperbolic Realism: A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's Late Maximalist Fiction Dr. Samir Sellami 9781501374555
Booksplease Price: £30.54What comes after postmodernism in literature?Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary... -
What to Read and Why by Francine Prose 9780062397874
Booksplease Price: £13.26In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic, and essayist celebrates the pleasures of reading and... -
Comunidades efimeras: Grupos de vanguardia y neovanguardia en la novela hispanoamericana del siglo XX by Luis H. Castaneda 9781433127397
RRP: £73.70Booksplease Price: £65.47Comunidades efimeras estudia una de las vetas mas interesantes, y menos visitadas por la critica, de la imaginacion literaria hispanoamericana: la representacion novelistica de pequenos grupos de... -
The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob 9780984115587
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by Mallarme, Jarry and Gide, in a new translation When Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894, it immediately... -
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays by Pedro Lemebel 9781782278245
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Searingly political, extravagantly stylish dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time 'When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in the... -
Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora: From the Americas to the World by John Ochoa 9781793636683
Booksplease Price: £33.84Honoring the lifework of the comparative literature scholar, From the Americas to the World: Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora traces artistic and cultural pathways that connect Latin... -
Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America by Susana Draper
Booksplease Price: £54.06During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the postdictatorship era of the 1990s, a... -
Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora: From the Americas to the World by John Ochoa 9781793636669
Booksplease Price: £85.95Honoring the lifework of the comparative literature scholar, From the Americas to the World: Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora traces artistic and cultural pathways that connect Latin... -
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture by Oswaldo Zavala
Booksplease Price: £28.86Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Zavala makes the case that the very terms we use to describe drug traffickers are a constructed... -
Perpetual Law 9781646053384
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64From 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... -
Early Work by Andrew Martin
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.93For young writers of a certain temperament-if they haven't had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet-the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B... -
Bartleby And Co by Enrique Vila-Matas
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Marcelo, a clerk in a Barcelona office who might himself have emerged from a novel by Kafka, inhabits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of... -
All Fires the Fire by Julio Cortazar 9780811229456
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting... -
The Lime Tree by Cesar Aira
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Seeing double rows of elegant lime trees around the main square of his hometown of Colonel Pringles, our narrator - who could well be the author himself, although nothing is guaranteed in a book by... -
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.03Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first time'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish... -
The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernandez
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.51It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The... -
In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel by Anibal Gonzalez
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from... -
The Dream of My Return by Horacio Castellanos Moya 9780811223430
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.32High-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home at the tail end of El Salvador's long civil war. Is the plan a dream or a nightmare? Is he courageous, foolhardy, or... -
The Savage Detectives Reread by David Kurnick
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The Savage Detectives elicits mixed feelings. An instant classic in the Spanish-speaking world upon its 1998 publication, a critical and commercial smash on its 2007 translation into English, Roberto... -
Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria 9780199754915
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas... -
Imaginary Films in Literature by Stefano Ercolino 9789004306325
Booksplease Price: £94.90Since cinema is a composite language, describing a movie is a complex challenge for critics and writers, and greatly differs from the ancient and successful genre of the ekphrasis, the literary... -
1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3 by Haruki Murakami
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.59The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky.In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely... -
An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Alexander Beecroft
Booksplease Price: £25.38What is a literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with each other? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature... -
The Bodies of Others: Essays on Ethics and Representation by José A. Sánchez 9781350250666
Booksplease Price: £31.86Available in English for the first time, The Bodies of Others investigates, through a series of close readings of several theatrical and film productions in Europe and South America, the relationship... -
Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue 9781787301467
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.55Once I moved like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.The darkly funny and action-packed story of Geronimo and how the American West was 'won'A New York Times What to Read selection for... -
Sudden Death by Alvaro Enrigue
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Glorious' New York Times'Endlessly inventive', Guardian, Best Books of 2016 'Wildly funny' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies As Caravaggio, the libertine of Italy's art world, and the loutish... -
Nervous System by Lina Meruane 9781786499493
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Nervous System is fast, uncompromising and shimmering with intelligence' Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater'Meruane is one of the one or two greats in the new generation of Chilean writers who... -
Antiquities and Classical Traditions in Latin America Andrew Laird 9781119559337
Booksplease Price: £28.33This collection is the first concerted attempt to explore the significance of classical legacies for Latin American history - from the uses of antiquarian learning in colonial institutions to the... -
The Seamstress and the Wind by Cesar Aira
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28In a small town in Argentina, a seamstress is sewing a wedding dress. All of a sudden she fears that her son has been kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. She gives chase in a taxi. Her husband... -
Violence and Naming: On Mexico and the Promise of Literature by David E. Johnson 9781477317969
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.83Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible,... -
The Mysterious Disappearance of the Marquise of Loria by Jos� Donoso 9780811232241
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86All 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... -
Collected Stories by Bruno Schulz 9780810136601
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Collected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer,... -
Montevideo: A Novel Enrique Vila-Matas 9780300284836
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The award-winning newest novel by Spain's premier writer-a metafictional meditation on the limits and possibilities of literature The narrator of Montevideo is an itinerant writer and erstwhile... -
The Galloping Hour: French Poems Alejandra Pizarnik (New Directions) 9780811227742
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.79The Galloping Hour: French Poems-never before rendered in English and unpublished during her lifetime-gathers for the first time all the poems that Alejandra Pizarnik (revered by Octavio Paz and...