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Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves,... -
Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate the merits of Teillier and Millan (but never Neruda - beyond the pale)... -
My Documents by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature. Whether chronicling the attempts... -
Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra 9780374534356
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534356Author Alejandro ZambraFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint
The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra 9781804270240
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as...
The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero 9781916751064
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Levrero's writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination, and nowhere more so than in this 1970 story collection. From the Escher-like grammatical maze of 'The Boarding House' to the Lewis...
Ten Juan Emar 9780811232074
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.11A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemon, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts...
The Obscene Bird of Night: unabridged, centennial edition by José Donoso 9780811232227
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.81Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of the crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are...
Season of the Swamp Yuri Herrera 9781916751101
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60New Orleans, 1853. A young Zapotec man named Benito Juarez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp along with a small group of fellow political exiles from Mexico. Later, in 1858, he...
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...
The Sad Part Was by Prabda Yoon 9781911284062
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Winner of a PEN Translates! grant. Selected as a 'book to look out for in 2017' by The Guardian and BuzzFeed Books. In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on pop culture, experiments with...
Older Brother by Daniel Mella
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62"This slim and vital novel is a tour de force; it will floor you, and lift you right the way up-I adored it." -Claire-Louise Bennett , author of PONDDuring the summer of 2014, on one of the...
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar: The Shocking True Story of the Notorious Drug Lord from the Woman Who Knew Him Best by Virginia Vallejo
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51VIRGINIA VALLEJO:Top Colombian television journalist, cover model and socialitePABLO ESCOBAR:Head of the Medellin cartel, the founder of the global cocaine industry and one of the most ambitious -...
Napalm in the Heart Pol Guasch 9780571375257
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99'Innovative and original.' Colm Toibin'Unforgettable.' Alejandro Zambra'A punk novel with prose as mysterious as it is beautiful.' Nicole Flattery 'Pol Guasch must be one of the best young writers...
Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier 9780143133889
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £9.88One of Latin America's greatest historical novels deals with the impact of the French Revolution on the CaribbeanWhen he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a...
Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Journeys to Cemeteries Mariana Enriquez 9781803511290
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68In Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in...
Natural History by Carlos Fonseca
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.92Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination...
The Desert and Its Seed by Jorge Baron Biza
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72The Desert and Its Seed opens with a taxi ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from acid thrown by her ex-husband while they signed divorce papers. Mario, her son, tries to wipe the...
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy...
Bogota 39: New Voices from Latin America by Various
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99'This new generation of Latin American writers has exchanged history for memory, dictators for narcos and political engagement for gender and class consciousness.' El Pais Ten years on from...
Natural History by Carlos Fonseca 9780374216306
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £13.39Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination...
A Sunny Place for Shady People Mariana Enriquez 9781803511245
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters...
The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era by Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.85In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art-especially the claim that political freedom can be...
The Delivery by Margarita García Robayo 9781913867690
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.95From the acclaimed author ofFish Soup, a wickedly self-aware novel of family, memory, and possibility just this side of the uncanny.A tolerable, ordinary life: an adequate, if boring, freelance job;...
Animals by Hebe Uhart
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.33Hebe 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 course,...
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.51The debut collection from the acclaimed author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night. 'An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror... You [will] return home looking...
The Redemption of Galen Pike: and Other Stories by Carys Davies 9781907773716
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37Winner of the 2015 International Frank O'Connor Short Story AwardWinner of the 2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 Wales Book of the Year: FictionShortlisted for the 2015...
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez 9781783788224
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.97From cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed "...one of the best novels of the 21st century" - Paul Tremblay "...a...
The Anthropologists Aysegül Savas 9781398529939
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2024 'An erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love... Asya and Manu could very well be a couple in a novel by Sally Rooney or Caleb Azumah...
Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The memories we return to most frequently are the most inaccurate, the least faithful to reality...This is the tragic realisation made by the narrator of Ramifications as he tries to make sense of...
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli 9781566894098
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.92"Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Marquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of...