A woman’s fierce desire to live by her own rules exacts a tragic price, in this heart-wrenching novel by “the literary grandmaster of Colombia” (New York Review of Books)Feliza is back in Paris, the city where decades ago she took flight into a sculptor’s life. “The first face you make is always your own,” observed her mentor at the academy there. Feliza – who as a child once escaped into the mountains north of Bogotá so she could paint them better – has n...

Eduardo Halfon's "Tomorrow We Never Did Talk About It" follows closely the departure of a well-off industrialist Jewish family from Guatemala in the early 1980s. The events are seen from the point of view of the naive, inquisitive ten-year-old son. In Anne McLean's vivid translation, the wrenching upheaval of the family's departure emerges as a microcosm of the country's descent into hell.“Guatemala may be tranquil, but Eduardo Halfon is a narrative volcano.” — Neue Zür...

Eduardo Halfon's The Polish Boxer is the sparkling English debut from one of Latin America's most exciting new voices. Blurring the boundary between fiction and memoir, the tales within all reach for the beautiful and fleeting, whether through humour, music, poetry, or unspoken words. Throughout his encounters with fascinating collection of characters, the narrator - a Guatemalan literature professor and writer named Eduardo Halfon - pursues his most enigmatic subject: himself. Translated ...

**#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The riveting second novel in the acclaimed Spanish writer's detective trilogy.“There is no one writing in English like this. . . . Powerful stuff.” —The Sunday Times (London)**The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed with a sex tape from her student days that she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation.A political chameleon who swept to power on a populist wave, the mayor has powerful ene...

* National Bestseller and winner of the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award*** Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review* Lauded by Jonathan Franzen, E. L. Doctorow and many othersFrom a global literary star comes a prize-winning tour de force – an intimate portrayal of the drug wars in Colombia.**Juan Gabriel Vásquez has been hailed not only as one of South America’s g...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations, a brilliant collection of stories that showcases why he is one of the best writers—in any language—working today.Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories....

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandonSitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her h...

A short, unforgettable masterwork by one of Colombia’s most influential living novelists.Far Far Away is the Colombian master Evelio Rosero’s ninth novel and has been billed by his Spanish publisher as “one of the most important Colombian works of fiction written in the past two decades.” In search of his missing granddaughter Rosaura, an old man named Jeremías Andrade arrives in a town strewn with dead mice and overflowing with mist and fog. The owner of ...

An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions.The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as hi...

**#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The indelible final novel in the acclaimed Spanish writer's detective trilogy.“There is no one writing in English like this. . . . Powerful stuff.” —The Sunday Times (London)**A father's worst nightmare: Melchor Marín's teenage daughter has disappeared.Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta. But their idyll is...

An unforgettable yet humane novel that takes us into the heart of Colombia’s brutal society, by one of the country’s most renowned writersSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 QUEEN SOFIA SPANISH INSTITUTE TRANSLATION PRIZEI was alone when someone pounded on my door. Who could it be?So begins Toño the Infallible, Evelio Rosero’s gripping nov...

A fantastical novel about power and subservience by the great Evelio Rosero, winner of Colombia’s National Literature PrizeThe renowned Colombian writer Evelio Rosero has never been one to shy away from the darker aspects of his nation’s history and society. His magnificent novel Stranger to the Moon portrays a world that seems to exist outside time and place but taps into the dark myths and collective subconscious of his country, with its harrowing inequa...