Affections
About the book
Inspired by the real Ertl family, the novel follows Germans who settle in Bolivia after the war.
Original title: Los afectos
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Bolivia
Hasbún examines a family entangled in political violence. Paz Soldán turns a Bolivian writer’s gaze toward migration across the Mexico–United States border. Colanzi joins fantasy, horror and ecological anxiety with colonial memory. Saenz’s poetry leads into another La Paz: nocturnal, bodily and inhabited by people outside the official order.
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- AffectionsRodrigo Hasbún
- NorteEdmundo Paz Soldán
- Our Dead WorldLiliana Colanzi
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Norte
About the book
Three separate migrant stories expose the darker sides of crossing the Mexico–United States border.
Our Dead World
About the book
These stories mix horror and fantasy with Indigenous memory and the colonial legacy.
Original title: Nuestro mundo muerto
You Glow in the Dark
About the book
Nuclear contamination, social violence and uncanny landscapes meet in experimental stories.
Original title: Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro
The Night
About the book
A long poem enters darkness, bodily experience and the search for another kind of knowledge.
Original title: La noche
Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz
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This selected poetry connects visionary language with La Paz, death and solidarity with excluded people.
EnglishTranslation
Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz
University of California Press
Edition source ↗Turing’s Delirium
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In a world of Bolivian intelligence officers and hackers, the legacy of dictatorship meets new forms of digital rebellion.
The Matter of Desire
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A professor working in the United States returns to Bolivia to investigate the mysteries of his father’s past.
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