Evilio Rosero, trans. from the Spanish by Victor Meadowcroft and Anne McLean. New Directions, $13.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2862-6
Colombian writer Rosero (The Armies) delivers a taut allegory about inequality and abuse in which one set of people, who are clothed, oppress those who are made to stay naked. The naked live apart from the clothed in an overcrowded house without...
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Evelio Rosero, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Victor Meadowcroft. New Directions, $17.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2881-7
The engrossing latest from Colombian writer Rosero (Stranger to the Moon) plumbs the depths of an artist’s depravity. When 50-year-old writer Eri answers his door one evening, he is greeted by Toño, a former friend and tormentor whom he hasn’t seen...
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Evelio Rosero, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Victor Meadowcroft. New Directions, $13.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3807-6
Rosero follows up Toño the Infallible with a potent fever dream about an old man named Jeremías Andrade whose yearslong search for his missing granddaughter, Rosaura, takes him to a strange town in the Andes. The locale is ominous: the atmosphere is
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Evelio Rosero, trans. from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom. New Directions, $13.95 trade paper (132p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1930-3
In his second novel translated into English, award-winning Rosero (The Armies) documents a night in the life of hunchback and charity worker Tancredo, a man whose church conceals underhanded activities. Despite the simple premise—a parish priest and
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