An artist races to finish his forgery of a masterpiece while held captive in surreal, menacing splendor.

Jose Federico Burgos is a failed painter turned forger trapped in surreal, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very intimidating twins-Forgery pays homage to greats like Juan Rulfo and Luis Barragan, traversing late 20th Century Guadalajara with the exuberance and eccentricity of an 18th Century picaresque.

About the Author

Ave Barrera (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1980) holds a Bachelor in Hispanic Literature from the University of Guadalajara and for several years she worked as an editor in Oaxaca. Ave has been awarded fellowships from the Fundacion Carolina for a training course on publishing at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Young Creators Grant for Novel (2010 and 2014) from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA). Ave has worked as copywriter for e-media and once as a ghostwriter. She also writes short stories and just published the illustrated children book Una noche en el laberinto (A Night in a Labyrinth, Edebe 2014). She was recipient of the Sergio Galindo Award from the Veracruz University with her first novel Puertas demasiado pequenas (The Forgery). She currently lives in Mexico City and is writing a new novel:Tratado de la vida marina (A Treatise of Marine Life) with the support of FONCA. Her latest novel was published in 2019 in Mexico and Spain under the title Restauracion (Restoration).

Ellen Jones is a writer, editor, and literary translator from Spanish. Her recent and forthcoming translations include The Remains by Margo Glantz (shortlisted for the Warwick Prize of Women in Translation), Cubanthropy by Ivan de la Nuez, The Forgery by Ave Barrera (co-translated with Robin Myers), and Nancy by Bruno Lloret. Her monograph, Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is published by Columbia University Press (2022).

Robin Myers is a New York-born poet and translator. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming from the_Kenyon Review_ , the_Harvard Review_ , Two Lines , The Offing ,Journal , Asymptote , the Los Angeles Review of Books , and Inventory . In 2009, she was named a fellow of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA); in 2014, she was awarded a residency at the Banff Literary Translation Centre (BILTC); and in 2017, and she was selected to participate in the feminist translation colloquium A-Fest. Recent book-length translations include Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, Animals at the End of the World by Gloria Susana Esquivel, In Vitro by Isabel Zapata and Bariloche by Andres Neuman.

Reviews

"Ave Barrera eases us into this microcosmos as strange and shocking as it is true, constructing powerful atmospheres imbued with very varied sensations, ranging from dreamlike hallucinations to terror, horror and beauty." -El Pais

"We must pay serious attention to the work of Ave Barrera."" -Cristina Rivera Garza , author of NO ONE WILL SEE ME CRY

"The plot flows in an intelligent and audacious way: It surprises by the simplicity and malice in which complex technical aspects are solved."" -Geney Beltran Felix

"A wild ride for protagonist and reader alike." -Kirkus

"A fun and entertaining story of a great literary quality." -Milenio

"Delightfully written, full of revelations ... Such a literary discovery." -Radio 3 (RTVE)

Book Information
ISBN 9781913867157
Author Ave Barrera
Format Paperback
Page Count 173
Imprint Charco Press
Publisher Charco Press