Miguel Vitagliano’s dark, often desolate Golpe de aire explores how the death of a loved one mixes up past memories and present doubts Golpe de AireMiguel Vitagliano2004, Grupo Editorial Norma (Buenos Aires)260 pages Reviewed by Francisco Ferreira AFTER prematurely losing her husband, Ponci, to cancer, Mercedes discovers by chance that he had a lover. These…
Categories: Argentina, South America
If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t read Edyr Augusto’s Hornets’ Nest. It’s small, but its deadly…
Categories: Brazil, South America
Havana: Between the Sky and Heaven by Ruswel Piñeiro reads like a book of short stories with apparently little connection between them
They may not be ripe… but the plums served up in Enrique Serna’s Fruta Verde are certainly tempting
Categories: Mexico, North America
Edmundo Urrutia’s Naufragio de las palabras is a perfect point of departure for a journey into literature about Guatemala’s civil war
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
La historia de Horacio is a delightful foray into the eccentric world of an acutely sensitive antique dealer in the Colombia of the 1960s
Categories: Colombia, South America
Rosa de Miami by Eduardo Belgrano Rawson is an epic novel about the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion whose many voices combine in symphonic triumph
Categories: Argentina, Caribbean, Cuba, South America
December Heat by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza follows a bookish policeman’s trip into the urban underbelly of Rio de Janeiro
Categories: Brazil, South America
From the Darkness, the debut novel of Oswaldo Salazar, now in English, is a masterful account of a true crime that shook Guatemala in 1939
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
El hombre de Montserrat by Dante Liano is a stylish bludgeon that forces the reader through a Guatemala crisscrossed by death squads
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
