Rodrigo Rey Rosa, trans. from the Spanish by Jeffrey Gray. Yale Univ., $13 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-300-19610-8
Set in Tangier, Guatemalan Rey Rosa’s (The Good Cripple) spare novella evokes the work of his mentor Paul Bowles. Loosely interweaving the stories of Hamsa, a Moroccan shepherd preparing himself to serve as a lookout for a smuggling operation run by
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Rodrigo Rey Rosa, trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. Yale Univ., $13 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-300-19609-2
"Books have always been my life," says one character in Rey Rosa's delightful novella, about an unnamed bookseller with literary aspirations, who falls in love with the title character, an irresistible book thief. Obsessed with this "severe" young...
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Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Author, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Author, Paul Bowles, Translator City Lights Books $7.95 (124p) ISBN 978-0-87286-272-2
Rosa's stories, set in Guatemala, are linked by themes of violence and danger. Translated by Bowles, the ac claimed author of The Sheltering Sky. (Nov.)
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Rodrigo Rey Rosa, trans. from the Spanish by Stephen Henighan. Biblioasis, $16.95 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-77196-514-9
Guatemalan writer Rey Rosa (Human Matter) offers an uneven story of corruption, activism, and the plundering of Indigenous lands by multinational mining companies. Don Emilio Carrión, a middleman for shady transactions between the government and...
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