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  • The Seven Madmen

    by Roberto Arlt ...
    Translated by Nick Caistor ...
    A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature and a crucial work for Julio Cortázar, The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain, is dismissed from his job as a bill collector for embezzlement. Then his wife leaves him and things only go downhill after that. Erdosain wanders the crowded, confusing streets of Buenos Aires, thronging with immigrants almost as displaced ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Mad Toy

    by Robert Arlt, Roberto Arlt ...
    The first novel by one of the greatest writers of Latin American literature is a semiautobiographical story reflecting the energy and chaos of early 20th-century Buenos Aires Feeling the alienation of youth, Silvio Astier's gang tours neighborhoods, inflicting waves of petty crime, stealing from homes and shops until the police are forced to intervene. Drifting then from one career and subsequent ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mad Toy

    by Roberto Arlt ...
    Translated by Michele Aynesworth ...
    Roberto Arlt, celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American “boom” and “postboom” novelists such as Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende. Mad Toy, acclaimed by many as Arlt’s best novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the badlands of adolescence, ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Havana Red

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    First of quartet with same hero. Sold well in Spain, Italy , France and Germany (40,000 per title in Germany alone). First time the author is available in English.Award winning novel.High critical acclaim in all countries. ... Read more

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  • On Mexican Time

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    by Tony Cohan ...
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  • A Personal Matter

    by Kenzaburo Oe ...
    Translated by John Nathan ...
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  • Driving Over Lemons

    An Optimist in Andalucia

    by Chris Stewart ...
    Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. A man who flies to Spain, sees a peasant farm on the wrong side of the river and, with scarcely a second thought, hands over a cash deposit. And then finds he has acquired not just the farm, but the farmer, too, who has no intention of leaving. Not to mention the lack of running water, electricity or even a bridge.It would be enough to send most people ... Read more

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  • My Tender Matador

    by Pedro Lemebel ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
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  • Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination

    by Edogawa Rampo ...
    Translated by James B. Harris ...
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  • The Tango Singer

    Translated by Anne McLean ...
    by Tomás Eloy Martínez ...
    Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative performances in a series of apparently arbitrary sites around the city. As Bruno tries to find Martel ... Read more

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