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  • The Man Who Loved Dogs

    A Novel

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    "In this ambitious, at times gripping work of historical fiction, Padura re-creates the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico." ― Foreign AffairsIn The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader.The story revolves around Iván ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Call Me Cassandra

    A Novel

    by Marcial Gala ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    Finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize and the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction"Dazzling." —Marcela Valdes, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"A spellbinding novel by one of the best writers of the Americas." —Junot Díaz, author of This is How You Lose HerTen-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Autobiography of Fidel Castro

    by Norberto Fuentes ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    "A compelling fictional personage-by turns arrogant, funny, pompous, lewd, self-absorbed and self-deluding."—Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesAn audacious "biography" of the ex-president of Cuba told in Castro's own outrageous, bombastic voice. Prize-winning author and journalist Norberto Fuentes was once a revolutionary: a writer with privileged access to Fidel Castro's inner circle during some ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sabers and Utopias

    Visions of Latin America: Essays

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    A landmark collection of essays on the Nobel laureate's conception of Latin America, past, present, and futureThroughout his career, the Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa has grappled with the concept of Latin America on a global stage. Examining liberal claims and searching for cohesion, he continuously weighs the reality of the continent against the image it projects, and considers the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heretics

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    Series series Mario Conde Investigates
    In 1939, the Saint Louis sails into Havana with Jewish refugees seeking asylum. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the as his parents are kept on the vessel. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Inspector Conde is back to investigate the story of this lost painting. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Halfway House

    by Guillermo Rosales ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    “This posthumous translation of Rosales, a Cuban-American writer who committed suicide in 1993, delivers a raw, powerful story set in a Miami home for the mentally ill… It’s a frightening, nihilistic cousin of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”—Publishers WeeklyNever before available in English, The Halfway House is a trip to the darkest corners of the human condition. Humiliations, filth, stench, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Heretics

    A Novel

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    Series Book 8 - Mario Conde Investigates
    "Padura's Heretics spans and defies literary categories . . . ingenious." —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh AirA sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author, Heretics is Leonardo Padura's greatest detective work yet.In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Cathedral

    A Novel

    by Marcial Gala ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fateThe Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Leapfrog

    by Guillermo Rosales ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    The “prequel” to Rosales’s “tragically beautiful and unforgettable” (Los Angeles Times) Cuban-American novel The Halfway HouseLeapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in Havana ofthe late ’50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood kids, smokes cigarettes, tells very lame jokes: “By the way, do you know who died? No. Someone who was alive. Laughter. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Conversation at Princeton

    by Mario Vargas Llosa, Rubén Gallo ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    A series of conversations held at Princeton University between the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and Rubén Gallo.Princeton University, 2015. For one semester, Mario Vargas Llosa taught a course on literature and politics with Rubén Gallo. Over several classes, the two writers spoke to students about the theory of the novel and the relationship between journalism, politics, and literature ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Transparency of Time

    A Novel

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    Series Book 9 - Mario Conde Investigates
    From Leonardo Padura—whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix’s Four Seasons in Havana—The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history.Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Black Cathedral

    A Novel

    by Marcial Gala ...
    Narrated by Kyla García, Gary Tiedemann ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Haunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fateThe Stuart family moves to a marginal neighborhood of Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Arturo Stuart, a charismatic, visionary preacher, discovers soon after arriving that God has given him a mission: to build a temple that surpasses any before seen ... Read more

    $15.99 USD