Mempo Giardinelli, Author, Patricia J. Duncan, Translator Latin American Literary Review Press $13.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-935480-92-4
A bestseller in Argentina where it was published in 1983, this feverish novella made Giardinelli the first foreign author to win Mexico's National Book Award. The story, about a man who commits a heinous crime and spirals into a series of...
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Mempo Giardinelli, Author, Andrea Labinger, Translator Latin American Literary Review Press $15 (93p) ISBN 978-1-891270-10-9
Hollywood violence is imported to Latin America in this bloody but oddly captivating novella chronicling the mother of all midlife crises. The first-person narrator, twice-divorced Argentinian Alfredo Romero, is approaching 50. For four years,...
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Mempo Giardinelli, Author Ediciones B $24.1 (239p) ISBN 978-84-666-0176-4
This latest work by noted Argentine author/essayist Giardinelli, which received the 2000 Premio Grandes Viajeros, is ostensibly a travel book describing a trip to the harsh, mysterious, and isolated land of Patagonia. But it is also a...
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