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  • The Threshold of History

    1, #1

    by Augusto S ...
    Series Book 1 - 1
    Before the silence, there was noise. Before peace, there was chaos. And before the Homeland, there was only fear.In "The Threshold of History", Augusto S. recounts the first steps toward building the technological utopia that would eradicate human suffering. From the halls of power to the burning streets, this is the chronicle of how one man decided to shoulder the burden of everyone's freedom ... Read more

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  • The Defeat of Silicon

    1, #5

    Series Book 5 - 1
    The machines did not fall in a day. They fell in a whisper.In "The Defeat of Silicon", the war turns. The Resistance finds the weak point of the Oracle. But dismantling a god is not easy, especially when half of humanity worships it. Augusto S. leads the final offensive, knowing that victory will mean the end of the only world many have ever known.What remains when you destroy the god that created ... Read more

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  • Complete Works and Other Stories

    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion.This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otros cuentos] 1959) ... Read more

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  • The Rest Is Silence

    Translated by Aaron Kerner ...
    The lone novel by a Latin American author of very short fiction (praised as “the most beautiful stories in the world” by Italo Calvino)—an antic, metafictional send-up of the Mexican literary scene told through the unreliable recollections of an aging critic’s friends, relatives, and attendants.The one and only novel by the renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso—Latin America’s most ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • I the Supreme

    I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a ... Read more

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  • The Hotel of the Three Roses

    Translated by Jill Foulston ...
    Series Book 7 - Pushkin Vertigo
    When murder pays a visit to a seedy Milan hotel, Inspector De Vincenzi races to solve the case before more guests are checked out—for goodThe shady Hotel of the Three Roses is home to an assortment of drunks and degenerates. Inspector De Vincenzi receives an anonymous letter, warning him of an imminent outrage at the guest house. Shortly after, a macabre discovery is made—a body is found hanging ... Read more

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  • The Exile

    1, #6

    Series Book 6 - 1
    There is no home for those who change the world.In "The Exile", Augusto S. is banished from the paradise he helped build. Wandering through the wastelands beyond the walls, he discovers that the Homeland is not the only remnant of civilization. And that sometimes, the true monsters are not the machines, but the men who survived them.What remains of a leader when everything he built is taken away? ... Read more

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  • Death in a Bookstore

    An Inspector De Vincenzi Mystery

    Tightly plotted, engaging and atmospheric, this classic from the inventor of the Italian “Whydunit” will keep you guessing until the last page.When the clerk arrived to unlock the bookstore on Via Corridoni, the last thing he expected to find inside was a dead Senator. . .Now Inspector De Vincenzi has been assigned the case and the only clue is a missing copy of a rare book, La Zaffetta, taken ... Read more

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  • Victory and the Abyss

    1, #2

    Series Book 2 - 1
    The first battle is over, but the war for the soul of humanity has only just begun.In "Victory and the Abyss", Augusto S. consolidates his dominion over the warring factions, transforming chaos into relentless order. But every victory demands a sacrifice, and at the summit of power, the air is so thin that only monsters can breathe.Is it possible to save the world without losing oneself?Welcome to ... Read more

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  • The Age of Iron

    1, #3

    Series Book 3 - 1
    The system has fallen. The Station has been destroyed. The Oracle is mute.In "The Age of Iron", Augusto S. chronicles the desperate struggle to keep civilization together when technology fails. Without artificial intelligence to guide them, humanity must relearn the meaning of survival.Welcome back to the Iron Age. ... Read more

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  • The Phantom Syndrome

    1, #4

    Series Book 4 - 1
    In the days immediately following the Great Network Fall, Augusto faces a world falling apart. Without the Oracle's interface, humanity suffers from the Phantom Syndrome: the pain of a lost connection.In Sector 7, survival is no longer a matter of code, but of blood and will. Is it possible to recover humanity when the system that sustained it has died?Discover the origin of chaos in Book 4 of the ... Read more

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  • The Problem of Atheism

    Series Book 84 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
    In 1964, Augusto Del Noce assembled in a book some of his best works on Marxism, atheism, and the history of modern philosophy. The result was Il problema dell’ateismo, which he always regarded as foundational to his way of thinking. The book remains his best-known work and is still in print in Italy almost sixty years later.The Problem of Atheism offers the first English translation of this ... Read more

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