Margo Glantz: El rastro (The Wake)
The latest addition to my website is Margo Glantz's El rastro (The Wake). This is one of two of her novels that have been translated into English. This novel is…
The latest addition to my website is Margo Glantz's El rastro (The Wake). This is one of two of her novels that have been translated into English. This novel is…
The latest addition to my website is Guadalupe Nettel's Después del invierno (After the Winter). This novel tells the story of two very different people. Claudio is Cuban and lives…
The latest addition to my website is Rosa Beltrán's Efectos secundarios [Secondary Effects]. This relatively short novel packs a lot in. It tells the story of a woman (though initially…
The latest addition to my website is Gustavo Sainz's La princesa del Palacio de Hierro (The Princess of the Iron Palace). Sainz was part of the Onda movement, a literary…
The latest addition to my website is Ignacio Padilla's Si volviesen sus majestades [If Their Majesties Were to Return]. This is a wonderfully chaotic novel, nominally set in the 16th-17th…
The latest addition to my website is Juan Pablo Villalobos' Fiesta en la madriguera (Down the Rabbit Hole). This is a Mexican drug novel (narcoliteratura) with a difference. It is…
The latest addition to my website is Hector Camín's El error de la luna [The Moon’s Mistake]. This tells the story of the nineteen year old Leonor Gonzalbo, whose parents…
The latest addition to my website is Valeria Luiselli's La historia de mis dientes (The Story of My Teeth). This is a superb post-modern novel about, well, teeth (amongst other…
The latest addition to my website is José Agustín's De perfil [In Profile]. This novel, Agustín's second, had considerable commercial and critical success in Mexico. It tells of four days…
Every year at around this time, I focus on the literature of one particular country. Last year, it was Japan. 2015 it was Russia. 2014 it was Iceland. This year,…