Diamela Eltit, Author, Helen Lane, Translator, Ronald Christ, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Helen Lane and Ronald Christ. Lumen Books $17 (104p) ISBN 978-0-930829-56-8
The mother of a troubled pre-teen boy gradually reveals her "state of collapse" in anonymous letters that she writes to an unnamed "you" in this 1994 novella from Chilean experimentalist Eltit (E. Luminata
). The woman, too fearful...
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Diamela Eltit, Author, Dick Gerdes, Translator University of Nebraska Press $10 (113p) ISBN 978-0-8032-6723-7
A brief introduction from the translator places this bizarre, often difficult, yet compelling novel in the company of the Chilean Eltit's other work about marginalization. Twins, a nameless sister and a brother named Maria Chipia, narrate their...
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Diamela Eltit, Author, Dick Gerdes, Translator University of Nebraska Press $50 (116p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1817-8
A brief introduction from the translator places this bizarre, often difficult, yet compelling novel in the company of the Chilean Eltit's other work about marginalization. Twins, a nameless sister and a brother named Maria Chipia, narrate their...
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Diamela Elitt, Author, Diamela Eltit, Author, Amanda Hopkinson, Translator Serpent's Tail $12.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-85242-287-5
The Chilean Eltit (The Fourth World) has a fierce dark side that becomes oppressive in this novel set in Santiago about a woman's obsession with a lover. The narrator is in love with Manuel, a man who has migrated from ``the South'' with his wife....
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