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| Author | : Alvaro Uribe |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1564785149 |
Sixteen of Mexicos finest fiction writers born after 1945 are collected in this compelling bilingual anthology, offering a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction, from small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery. Many of these writers, and most of these stories, have never before appeared in English. Readers will meet an embalmed man positioned in front of the TV, a mariachi singer suffering from mediocrity, a mans lifelong imaginary friend, and the town prostitute whose funeral draws a crowd from the highest rungs of the social ladder. The writers that Mexican editor lvaro Uribe selected for this volume are deeply engaged in the literary life of Mexico and include prominent editors, translators, columnists, professors, and even the young founder of a new publishing collective. Between them they have received dozens of prizes, from the Xavier Villaurrutia prize to Guggenheim fellowships and other international awards.
| Author | : Rikki Ducornet |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 156478519X |
In some 30 pieces, ranging in length from a single paragraph to nine pages, Ducornet explores the bonds of marriage and female friendship, takes on the worlds of art and academe, plays with language, spins fairy tales, and looks to a future of limited sensory experience in which a generation lacks mouth, tongue, and teeth. In "Poet," an insomniac titles her book The Greenhouse as Gas Chamber after accepting a grant from the Fossil Fuel Foundation; in the title story, a shopping trip intended to find "one marvelous thing" has unintended consequences, and in "The Dickmare", a bivalve, increasingly unhappy with her husband and at the height of her beauty after shedding her shell, contemplates her future.
| Author | : Cristina Rivera Garza |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2022-04-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 194898010X |
A story collection drawn from across her career brings into English for the first time the extraordinary stylistic and thematic range of the Mexican writer and MacArthur “genius” Cristina Rivera Garza. “One of Mexico’s greatest living writers,” wrote Jonathan Lethem in 2018 about Cristina Rivera Garza, “we are just barely beginning to catch up to what she has to offer.” In the years since, Rivera Garza’s work has received widespread recognition: She was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant for fiction that “interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective,” and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Yet we have still only started to discover the full range of a writer who is at once an incisive voice on migration, borders, and violence against women, as well as a high stylist in the manner of Lispector or Duras. New and Selected Stories now brings together in English translation stories from across Rivera Garza’s career, drawing from three collections spanning over 30 years and including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and remarkable body of work, and a window into the ever-evolving stylistic and thematic development of one of the boldest, most original and affecting writers in the world today.
| Author | : Jacques Roubaud |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 570 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1564785467 |
Kalniete's book is a moving and eloquent testimony to her family and to the Latvian nation--to their shared fate during more than fifty years of occupation. It is an indictment of the inhuman repression of both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Above all, it is the story of human survival, and it has become the most-translated Latvian book in recent history.
| Author | : Damion Searls |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1564785475 |
Seventeen years after the publication of the first volume of Jacques Roubaud's epic and moving "The Great Fire of London," Dalkey Archive Press is proud to publish the first English translation of The Loop, the second novel in Roubaud's Proustian series, which has in its capacity to astonish been compared to the compositions of Messiaen and the buildings of Antonio Gaudi. Devastated after the death of his young wife, Alix, the author conceives of a project that will allow him not only to continue writing, but continue living--writing a book that leads him to confront his terrible loss as well as examine the lonely world in which he now seems, more and more, to exist: that of Memory. The Loop finds Roubaud returning to his earliest recollections, as well as considering the nature of memory itself, and the process--both merciful and terrible--of forgetting. Neither memoir nor novel, by turns playful and despairing, The Loop is a masterpiece of contemporary prose.
| Author | : Pierre Siniac |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 498 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1564785793 |
A noir set in the seediest backwaters of the French publishing industry, The Collaborators tells the story of a hapless drifter who, after years of not particularly heroic effort, finally manages to write a book. A good book? A bad book? Well, it's complicated-and soon the complications he's set in motion spiral entirely out of control. Praised by Pierre Bayard in How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, and finally available in English by one of our greatest translators, The Collaborators is both a sinister thriller and a comedy of outrageous proportions. Under the title Ferdinaud Celine, The Collaborators was published in French in 1997 to great acclaim.
| Author | : Keizō Hino |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 156478603X |
Sakai works for a construction company that builds high rise buildings in Tokyo, but gets introduced to parts of the city he's never seen after meeting a mysterious young woman.
| Author | : Dumitru Țepeneag |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 490 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 156478570X |
A novel begun by a man in his bathtub begins, little by little, to overflow into his life.
| Author | : Mela Hartwig |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1564785815 |
Aloisia Schmidt is an ordinary secretary with a burning question: am I a redundant human being? She's neither pretty nor ugly (though she wishes she were hideous: at least that would be something), has no imagination, and is forced to live vicariously through "borrowed" fantasy--fantasy, that is, borrowed from books, plays, even other people's lives. She loves to hate herself, and loves for other people to hate her too. In one final, guilt-ridden, masturbatory, self-obsessed confession, Aloisia indulges her masochistic tendencies to the fullest, putting her entire life on trial, and trying, through telling her story (a story, she assures us, that's "so laughably mundane" it's really no story at all), to transform an ordinary life into something extraordinary.
| Author | : John Toomey |
| Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1564786013 |
Tells the story of privileged, handsome, and totally lost Stuart Byrne, who finds himself trying to survive an emotional crisis of emptiness and lack of purpose by creating a life of excess and promiscuity to fill the void.
