Mario Benedetti’s La Tregua stands the test of time because of the way in which it holds out the promise of hope through love and transgression
Categories: South America, Uruguay
Tag: Fiction
The Uncomfortable Dead
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Categories: Mexico, North America
Crime pays for Padura
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A contemplative cop can give us clues about the career of one of Cuba’s most accomplished contemporary writers
Where rats go to die
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The Colombian writer Evelio Rosero has constructed an eerie netherwold inhabited by those who have been kidnapped or who have disappeared
Categories: Colombia, South America
Los caballitos del diablo
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Categories: Colombia, South America
Spanish practices
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Exile colours Let the Wind Speak by Juan Carlos Onetti despite the Uruguayan author’s obsessive return to a fictional homeland p
Categories: South America, Uruguay
Savaged by cultural carnivores
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Perceptions of Mexico’s lofty intelligentsia will never be the same again after the publication of Enrique Serna’s eye-opening Fear of Animals
Categories: Mexico, North America
Zama
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Categories: Argentina, South America
Lizardo’s jailbirds
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Eli Gardner journeys into the dark palace of Lecumberri jail in Mexico City through Gonzalo Lizardo’s narrative of crime and punishment, Corazón de mierda
Categories: Mexico, North America
Last Evenings on Earth
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Categories: Chile, South America