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  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years

    by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll, Ilan Stavans ...
    “Cognizant of his impending death, Piglia, the Argentine titan of letters who died of A.L.S. in January, prepared his 327 notebooks for publication in a trilogy…. Splendidly crafted and interspliced with essays and stories, this beguiling work is to a diary as Piglia is to 'Emilio Renzi': a lifelong alter ego, a highly self-conscious shadow volume that brings to bear all of Piglia’s prowess as it ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Way Out

    by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll ...
    From Argentine literary powerhouse Ricardo Piglia, The Way Out is “an offbeat take on the campus novel, full of sex, intrigue, and marginalia” (Kirkus Reviews) that probes the lengths we go to hide our own truths and to uncover the secrets of others.In the mid 1990s Emilio Renzi leaves his unstable life in Argentina to take a visiting position at a prestigious university in New Jersey. Settling in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years

    by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll ...
    The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975—running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering the literary stars among whom he would soon take his place: Borges, Puig, Roa Bastos, Piñera.“One writes,” Ricardo Piglia ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animals

    by HEBE UHART ...
    Translated by Robert Croll ...
    **“Hebe Uhart’s characters are made of an almost palpable material. They are alive, and they seem to emerge from the page to tell us, ‘This one here is me, that one over there could be you.’” — Alejandra Costamagna, The Paris Review“Reading Hebe Uhart we laugh a lot, although we are never sure if what we’ve read is just a joke, because in her words there is also, above all, precision and wisdom . ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Way Out

    by Ricardo Piglia ...
    Translated by Robert Croll ...
    Emilio Renzi, literary alter ego of legendary Argentine author Ricardo Piglia, returns in The Way Out, an academic thriller that relentlessly questions the lengths we go to hide our own truths and to uncover the secrets of others.In the mid 1990s Emilio Renzi leaves behind his unstable life in Argentina to take a visiting position at a prestigious university in New Jersey. Settling in for a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Murders of Moisés Ville

    The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America

    by Javier Sinay ...
    Translated by Robert Croll ...
    **Award-winning journalist Javier Sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of Moisés Ville, the “Jerusalem of South America,” and his personal connection to a defining period of Jewish history in Argentina.**When Argentine journalist Javier Sinay discovers an article from 1947 by his great-grandfather detailing twenty-two murders ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Juan Hormiga

    by Gustavo Roldan ...
    Illustrated by Gustavo Roldan ...
    A whimsical tale in which family lore inspires newfound daring, told by Argentina's sleepiest antJuan Hormiga, the greatest storyteller of his entire anthill, loves to recount his fearless grandfather's adventures. When Juan and his fellow ants gather around for storytime, he hypnotizes all with tales of his grandfather's many exploits - including his escape from an eagle's talons and the time he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi

    A Day in the Life

    by Ricardo Piglia ...
    Translated by Robert Croll ...
    Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges’ heir and the vanguard of the Post-Boom generation of Latin American literature.How could we define a perfect day? Maybe it would be better to say: how could I narrate a perfect day?Is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years

    by Ricardo Piglia ...
    Translated by Robert Croll ...
    The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975—running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering the literary stars among whom he would soon take his place: Borges, Puig, Roa Bastos, Piñera.“One writes,” Ricardo Piglia ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years

    by Ricardo Piglia ...
    Translated by Robert Croll ...
    “Cognizant of his impending death, Piglia, the Argentine titan of letters who died of A.L.S. in January, prepared his 327 notebooks for publication in a trilogy…. Splendidly crafted and interspliced with essays and stories, this beguiling work is to a diary as Piglia is to “Emilio Renzi”: a lifelong alter ego, a highly self-conscious shadow volume that brings to bear all of Piglia’s prowess as it ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Literature Class, Berkeley 1980

    by Julio Cortázar ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about ... Read more

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  • Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

    by Fernando Sorrentino, Clark M. Zlotchew ...
    These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity, urbanity, and an encyclopedic memory of Jorge Luis Borges' work (in his prologue, Borges jokes that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD