The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule. Ndani leaves her village to seek a...
TRANSLATED BY ELIZABETH HARRIS A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she’s building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his...
TRANSLATED BY ELIZABETH BRYER For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D’s life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father’s trade, M convinces him to take her along...
TRANSLATED BY AMALIA GLADHART Jaguars’ Tomb is a novel in three parts, written by three interconnected characters. Part one, “Hidden Variables” by MarÍa Celina IgarzÁbal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second...
TRANSLATED BY SASHA DUGDALE With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life...
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