Blogs in January 2021

Nervous System 15th January 2021

An electrifying novel about illness, displacement, and what holds us together. Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the “country of the present” but she is from the “country of the past,” a place burdened in...

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A Perfect Cemetery 15th January 2021

Childhood does not last long in the Argentine mountains of Córdoba, and adult lives fall apart quickly. In disarming, darkly humorous stories, Federico Falco explores themes of obsessive love, romantic attachment and the strategies we must find to cope...

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How to Order the Universe 14th January 2021

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...

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Jaguars’ Tomb 14th January 2021

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...

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My Sweet Orange Tree 11th January 2021

Meet Zezé – Brazil’s naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a ‘poet with a bow-tie’ but for now he entertains himself playing...

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