Antonio Skarmeta, trans. from the Spanish by John Cullen. Other Press, $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59051-625-6
The disillusioned yet hopeful narrator of Skarmeta’s (The Postman) slim and subtle novel is Jacques, a 21-year-old school teacher and literary translator based in the village of Contulmo in southern Chile. Two years after his father suddenly...
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Antonio Skarmeta, trans. from the Spanish by Mery Botbol. Other Press, $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1590516270
Set in the weeks leading up to the 1988 Chilean plebiscite that ended Pinchoet's rule, Skarmeta's historical novel—winner of the 2011 Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa award—follows two men as they navigate the difficult...
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Antonio Skarmeta, Author, Susan Giersbach Rascon, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Susan G. Rascón. Welcome Rain $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56649-249-2
The citizens of the fictional Adriatic island of Gema prepare for a wedding and an invasion in this tragicomic romance. Wealthy Austrian businessman Jerónimo Franck, dubbed "the Poet" by his father, has purchased a dilapidated old...
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Antonio Skarmeta, Author, Jonathan Tittler, Translator Latin American Literary Review Press $15 (126p) ISBN 978-0-935480-82-5
Skarmeta is best known in this country as the author of the novel Burning Patience, the basis of last year's popular Italian movie, Il Postino (The Postman). But readers who enjoyed the intimacy and conscience of the film be forewarned: Love 15 is...
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Antonio Skarmeta, Author, Katherine Silver, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. Norton $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-393-06494-0
Skármeta (The Postman
) conjures in his impressive sixth book a contemporary Santiago, Chile, where the memory of Pinochet’s reign and the “disappearing” of citizens still looms. Presidential amnesty has granted freedom to...
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Antonio Skarmeta, Author, Katherine Silver, Translator Pantheon Books $7.95 (118p) ISBN 978-0-394-75033-0
Set in Chile in the early 1970s, this boisterous tale traces the growth from innocence to experience of Mario Jimenez, a young postman whose sole duty is to deliver mail to Pablo Neruda, the most famous citizen of Isla Negra, a tiny fishing hamlet....
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