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Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Bonsai 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,... -
My Documents by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01My 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... -
Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Gonzalo 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)... -
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra 9781783782710
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Reader, your life is full of choices. Some will bring you joy and others will bring you heartache. Will you choose to cheat (in life, the examination that follows) or will you choose to copy? Will... -
Childish Literature by Alejandro Zambra 9780143138082
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143138082Author Alejandro ZambraFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Bonsai: A Novel by Alejandro Zambra 9780143136507
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $22.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136507Author Alejandro ZambraFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Childish Literature Alejandro Zambra 9781804271100
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91How do we write about the singular experience of parenthood? Written in a 'state of attachment', or 'under the influence' of fatherhood, Childish Literature is an eclectic guide for novice parents,... -
A Christmas Story Alejandro Zambra 9781804272862
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.76A story about the connections between life and literature – and how friendships fade away. -
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra 9780143109198
Booksplease Price: $16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109198Author Alejandro ZambraFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra 9780374534356
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534356Author Alejandro ZambraFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint St. Martins... -
The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra 9781804270240
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Veronica 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... -
Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra 9781847086273
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality of Pinochet's regime. Then one night a mysterious girl appears in his... -
Chilean Poet: A Novel by Alejandro Zambra 9780143109204
Booksplease Price: $20.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109204Author Alejandro ZambraFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Private Lives of Trees: A Novel by Alejandro Zambra 9780143136514
RRP: $21.93Booksplease Price: $13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136514Author Alejandro ZambraFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine by Mario Levrero 9781916751064
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96Levrero'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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.20A 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... -
Season of the Swamp Yuri Herrera 9781916751101
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.96New 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... -
Tarantula by Eduardo Halfon 9781405986762
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.21Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger in France and the Premio de la Critica in SpainConversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction: an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy... -
The Obscene Bird of Night: unabridged, centennial edition by José Donoso 9780811232227
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.12Deep 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... -
Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Time, Gender and Race Denise Wong 9781399546959
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $104.55In fiction, you-narratives written in the last decade across the world parody the form of second-person address found in advertising, self-help and ‘how-to’ books while anticipating shame and... -
Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors by Adam Thirlwell 9781846275388
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Like Chinese whispers, the rules of this literary game are simple: the first writer translates an unknown story into English, which a second writer then translates into a different language, and a... -
Empty Words by Annie McDermott 9781911508502
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.95An 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Winner 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... -
The Avant-Garde after Bolaño: Literature and Affects in Latin America Rodrigo López Martínez 9781805966401
Booksplease Price: $140.79The Avant-Garde after Bolano: Literature and Affects in Latin America studies how the paradigmatic impact of the Chilean author Roberto Bolano has reshaped and revitalized the idea of the avant-garde... -
The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era by Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano 9781477316184
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $75.65In 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... -
Older Brother by Daniel Mella
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.41"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... -
The Son Of Black Thursday by Alejandro Jodorowsky
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $23.61From the legendary director of The Holy Mountain, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic, and author of Where the Bird Sings Best Alejandro Jodorowsky comes a follow-up autobiographical tour-de-force - a... -
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar: The Shocking True Story of the Notorious Drug Lord from the Woman Who Knew Him Best by Virginia Vallejo
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56VIRGINIA 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: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.76'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: $18.06Booksplease Price: $12.41One 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.81In 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.09Just 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.73The 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.49A 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.60'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: $27.08Booksplease Price: $17.27Just 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Mariana 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 Fallen by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.54A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Alvarez's debut novel The Fallen is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned... -
The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era by Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $20.45In 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 Touch System by Alejandra Costamagna 9781945492501
Booksplease Price: $18.18"Readers will find themselves hoping for more of this bold writer's work."-Publishers Weekly Cat sitter, insomniac, former schoolteacher. Ania worries she is a "stand-in occupant," a substitute in...