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“aurora venturini”

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  • We, the Casertas

    by Aurora Venturini ...
    Translated by Kit Maude ...
    From prize–winning author Aurora Venturini, a Gothic masterpiece following a gifted Argentine girl who left for Europe in search of meaning, and the relentless punishments of womanhood in the 1940sIn deliciously ironic, and at times breathtakingly poetic prose, We, the Casertas is the story of Chela, the first-born child to a wealthy family in Buenos Aires. Threatened by her extraordinary ... Read more

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  • Cousins

    by Aurora Venturini ...
    Translated by Kit Maude ...
    Four women from La Plata, Argentina, are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals thanks to their impoverished, dysfunctional family—in this darkly comic literary masterpiece from Aurora Venturini, never before translated into EnglishAt the age of eighty-five, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers when her darkly funny and formally daring novel, Cousins (Las primas), won *Página/12’*s New ... Read more

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  • Friends

    by Aurora Venturini ...
    Translated by Kit Maude ...
    From prize–winning author Aurora Venturini, a masterful and acerbic novel about a successful artist in her 80s returning to her hometown in Argentina after decades living and working in Europe, reckoning with old and new friends, lovers, and ideasIn a breathless, incantatory voice, Friends tells the story of Yuna Riglos, a celebrated Argentine painter nearing the end of her life. From her ... Read more

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    Cousins

    by Aurora Venturini ...
    Narrated by Sol Madariaga ...

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    At the age of eighty-five, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers when her darkly funny and formally daring novel, Cousins (Las primas), won Página/12's New Novel Award. She had already written more than forty books, but it was only then, in 2007, that she was widely recognized as a paradigm-shifting voice in Spanish-language literature.Cousins, widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, is ... Read more

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  • The Book of Emma Reyes

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    A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALISTBy the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner“An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling events in this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life from Colombian writer Quintana (The Bitch). Readers will be dazzled.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEWClaud... ... Read more

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