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This novel was a stunning history set in Pinochet's Chile. The main character is queen of her own apartment in Santiago (but to everyone else, a gentleman, a maricon, a pathetic figure). Starstruck by a handsome, educated revolutionary, she permits the Marxists to store boxes of unknown goods in h...
My first Aira novella, but not my last. Playful and serious, the 88 page recounting of a conversation between old friends of a strange adventure movie that was on tv the night before, offers an everyday memory relived, analyzed, expanded, amended, deepened. Short novels usually have a sense of compr...
Dreamy and depressing prose poems. Adán has a pretty negative opinion about women. Nonetheless, it's a beautiful portrait of a boy's city.
Title: The Mongolian Conspiracy Who Wrote It? Rafael Bernal (1915-1972), a well-known writer of Mexican detective novels. The Mongolian Conspiracy is regarded as his masterpiece. It was translated from Spanish by Katherine Silver, co-director of the Banff International Literary Translation Cen...
So-so book with a so-so plot that was actually quite boring to read even though the blurbs on the back say otherwise. I found nothing "hysterically funny" or "brilliant" or "masterful" about it. I am incensed by insult with the idea promoted by the publisher that this book is "pitch-perfect" with "...
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