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  • Time of the Flies

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    Life after crime from the International Booker-shortlisted author of Elena Knows

    Fifteen years after killing her husband’s lover, In?s is fresh out of prison and trying to put together a new life. Her

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    • Author: Pi?eiro, Claudia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 356
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1913867862
    • Language: English
  • Elena Knows

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    SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022

    After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the onl

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    • Author: Piñeiro, Claudia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 173
    • Publish Date: July 13 2021
    • ISBN10: 1999368436
    • Language: English
  • Forgotten Manuscript

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    “Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer.” –Patti Smith

    “Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn’t exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain.”

    The perfect green notebook forms the ba

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    • Author: Chejfec, Sergio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1913867714
    • Language: English
  • The German Room

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    How do you will a life into order? Adrift in Germany, a pregnant, aimless Argentine and her small circle of friends try and fail to find out.

    Fall in Heidelberg, and in a student residence a not-studen

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    • Author: Maliandi, Carla
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 137
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1999859332
    • Language: English
  • Slum Virgin

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    “Queer writing at its most exhilarating.” –Times Literary Supplement

    The slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police, sex workers, thieves, drug dealers, and deba

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    • Author: Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 147
    • Publish Date: August 20 2020
    • ISBN10: 1999722701
    • Language: English
  • Dislocations

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    How do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimer’s has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you?

    In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloy’s Dislocations re

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    • Author: Molloy, Sylvia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 89
    • Publish Date: November 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1913867358
    • Language: English
  • Here Be Icebergs

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    The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.

    The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families m

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    • Author: Adaui, Katya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 133
    • Publish Date: June 14 2022
    • ISBN10: 1913867196
    • Language: English
  • Confesión

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    Brutal y sobrecogedora, una novela con la dictadura argentina como tel?n de fondo.

    Tres historias que forman parte de una misma historia. En 1941, en una ciudad de provincias argentina, una ni?a con&#6

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    • Author: Kohan, Mart?n
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1913867676
    • Language: Spanish
  • The Remains

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    After her ex-husband dies unexpectedly, Nora Garc? travels to the funeral, back to a Mexican village from her past and the art and music of their life together.

    The way you hold a cello, the way light

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    • Author: Glantz, Margo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 134
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 1913867471
    • Language: English
  • Of Cattle and Men

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    Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.

    In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wi

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    • Author: Maia, Ana Paula
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 99
    • Publish Date: April 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1913867498
    • Language: English
  • The Forgery

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    A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very intimidating twins–Forgery pays homage to greats like Juan R

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    • Author: Barrera, Ave
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: July 26 2022
    • ISBN10: 1913867153
    • Language: English
  • Confession

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    Brutal and overwhelming, Confession wrestles with the legacy of Argentina’s past and the passions of one young girl.

    When Mirta L?ez looks out the dining room window, she sees a slim, self-possessed ol

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    • Author: Kohan, Martín
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 165
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 191386765X
    • Language: English
  • Never Did the Fire

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    What happens when two revolutionaries are left with nothing to believe in, not even each other?

    Never Did the Fire unfolds in the humdrum of everyday working class existence, making the afterlife of an

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    • Author: Eltit, Diamela
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 156
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 1913867218
    • Language: English
  • Fresh Dirt from the Grave

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    Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science–this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet.

    In Fresh Dirt from the Grave, a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.

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    • Author: Rivero, Giovanna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 155
    • Publish Date: June 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 191386751X
    • Language: English
  • The Rooftop

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    In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world.

    “The world is this house,” says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last rece

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    • Author: Tr?as, Fernanda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: October 12 2021
    • ISBN10: 1913867048
    • Language: English
  • The Delivery

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    From the acclaimed author ofFish Soup, a wickedly self-aware novel of family, memory, and possibility just this side of the uncanny.

    A tolerable, ordinary life: an adequate, if boring, freelance job; r

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    • Author: García Robayo, Margarita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 169
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1913867692
    • Language: English
  • Two Sherpas

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    Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.

    A British climber has fallen from a cliffside

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    • Author: Martínez Daniell, Sebastián
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 271
    • Publish Date: February 28, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1913867412
    • Language: English
  • A Little Luck

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    From the author of Elena Knows, finalist for the 2022 International Booker Prize

    20 years after a shocking accident, Mary Lohan returns to the Buenos Aires suburb she escaped in a fugue of guilt and is

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    • Author: Piñeiro, Claudia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1913867552
    • Language: English
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