Carmen Boullosa has achieved a whispered, confessional first person in her exploration of the power of memory
Categories: Mexico, North America
Tag: Fiction
The Initials of the Earth
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Noir of many colours
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Leonardo Padura, Havana’s master of the novela negra, tells Gavin O’Toole about his new novel on the murder of Trotsky, freedom of speech in Cuba, and whether his inimitable creation, Mario Conde, will ever die
Madness in crescendo
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Patrícia Melo’s Black Waltz takes the reader on a gripping journey into the discordant world of a troubled Brazilian composer
Categories: Brazil, South America
Fantasies of a ghetto nerd
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With hilarious banter, The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao challenges prejudices about purity of race, national identity and sexual definition
Categories: Caribbean, Dominican Republic, North America, United States
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Categories: Colombia, South America
An end to exile
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The publication of Comrades, a magisterial translation of the ideologically subversive ‘anti-novel’ by Guatemalan author Marco Antonio Flores, ends the 30-year linguistic exile of a prickly masterpiece
Categories: Central America, Guatemala
Forbidden love across the castes
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Ángeles del abismo by Enrique Serna transports the reader into a labyrinth of power and deception in colonial New Spain
Categories: Mexico, North America
Never judge a book by its author
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If you are new to Vargas Llosa – you won’t be short of choices. But keep The Bad Girl for later
Categories: Peru, South America
Finger on the global pulse
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Stories that fix their gaze on spaces outside the national territory add to the diversity of a bilingual anthology of work by Mexican writers
Categories: Mexico, North America