A modern epic on a grand scale, Avalovara is a rich and lyrical novel centered around Abel's courtship of three women. He pursues the sophisticated and inaccessible Roos across Europe; falls in love with Cecilia, a carnal, compassionate hermaphrodite; and achieves a tender, erotic alliance with a wo[...]
The razor-thin line between reality and madness is transgressed in this Faulknerian masterpiece, Ant nio Lobo Antunes's first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde a nightclub milieu of scorching intensity an[...]
Translated by Gregory Rabassa, winner of the National Book Award for Translation, 1967
Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disa[...]
This landmark novel by Colombia's great Nobelist chronicles the irreconcilable conflict in the Buendia family between the desire for solitude and the need for love. Its rich, imaginative prose introduced to the world the genre known as "magical realism."[...]
For the first time in English: legendary Brazilian author Jorge Amado's spirited novella about Arab immigrants to South America--published for the centennial of Amado's birthTwo Arab immigrants--"Turks" as Brazilians call them--arrive in the rough Brazilian frontier on the same ship in 1903, hoping [...]
"This luxurious translation of a Spanish tour de force, about the return of an exile to his native Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War, should captivate those who prize the elegant lyricism and complexity of Latin American fiction"-"Publishers Weekly""Marks of Identity" is the first volume of Goyt[...]