Alia Trabucco Zerán’s second book, When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold does exactly what it says on the tin, and tells the story of four women who committed, or were implicit in, four horrific murders during four different... Read Article
César Aira’s serpentine novel, The Divorce (released as El Divorcio in 2010, now translated into English by Chris Andrews), begins and ends, as the title suggests, with separation. Kent, the novel’s narrator, has just split from his wife,... Read Article
Brazil’s history of colonialism and slavery has a racist legacy that still hangs heavily over the country, despite the fact that Brazil is often portrayed via a myth of racial harmony. Described by the publisher And Other Stories... Read Article
“The Hummer flew backward, wiping out one of the men. It crashed back to earth and burst into flames. The artillerymen had time to calmly reload the bazooka and retake their position. The second shot blew up the... Read Article
Tens of thousands were estimated killed or disappeared during Argentina’s dirty war and Daniel Loedel’s Hades, Argentina explores the fates of a handful of fictional characters during the time. Tomás Orilla is a medical student in 1976 caught... Read Article
The year is 1993 and Cuba’s economy is in deep recession after the collapse of the Soviet Union two years prior. There are shortages of almost everything. The thriving black market is the only source of food besides... Read Article
Reviewers of Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas described the book as “innovative”, “monumental”, “a vibrant modernist novel” and one that will appeal to “fans of Latin American fiction that navigates the bleeding edge of experimentation”. These phrases from... Read Article
According the writer G.K. Chesterton, “the man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world”, a point which ought to be remembered throughout A Perfect Cemetery, the fourth collection of short stories from Federico... Read Article
Think about what you do when you’re alone at home. Would you act differently if you knew you were being watched? Would you take the chance to be a voyeur in someone else’s life? Samanta Schweblin’s latest novel... Read Article
Scroll to the end of this article to read poems from the collection Um girassol nos teus cabelos – poemas para Marielle Franco (A Sunflower in Her Hair – Poems for Marielle Franco). It’s March the 14th, 2018.... Read Article
Isabel Allende was born in Peru and raised in Chile. She now lives in California. Following a career in journalism and exile in Venezuela, she published her widely acclaimed novel The House of Spirits in 1982, which paved... Read Article
Tender is the Flesh, written by Argentinian author Agustina Bazterrica (original title Cadáver exquisito), is not a pretty book: it’s a hard one to read. Marcos Tejo, the main character, runs a meat processing plant, but it is... Read Article
