The Truce
About the book
Widowed office worker Martín Santomé records an unexpected love as retirement approaches.
Original title: La tregua
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Benedetti begins with an office worker’s routine and unexpected intimacy. Hernández makes the ordinary world strange, while Quiroga turns it into a place of horror and danger. Peri Rossi explores exile, and Galeano builds literature from brief fragments of memory. In Trías, community and care face the test of ecological disaster.
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- The TruceMario Benedetti
- Piano StoriesFelisberto Hernández
- Pink SlimeFernanda Trías
Books to begin with
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Piano Stories
About the book
A pianist’s tales turn everyday experience strange, giving objects, memories and desires lives of their own.
Pink Slime
About the book
A woman remains in a city struck by a toxic disaster, maintaining fragile connections with those close to her.
Original title: Mugre rosa
The Ship of Fools
About the book
An exile named Ecks travels through unnamed places in an experimental narrative of estrangement and identity.
Original title: La nave de los locos
The Book of Embraces
About the book
Brief anecdotes, dreams and recollections form a mosaic of memory, literature and freedom.
Original title: El libro de los abrazos
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
About the book
This story selection combines horror, the jungle and studies of human psychology under the threat of death.
EnglishTranslation
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
University of Texas Press
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Springtime in a Broken Mirror
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A political prisoner and his exiled family try to preserve relationships strained by dictatorship and separation.
A Brief Life
About the book
Brausen seeks escape from a painful everyday existence through the imagined town of Santa María and alternative lives.
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