Winner.... 
Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021 
Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018 
Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017 
Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016\nA provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled with a light touch.\nThe Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters’ lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator’s ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the moment of the Big Bang.\nThe Absolute is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words.\n“This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece. … It’s the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is.” —La Nación

The Absolute

Literature & Fiction

Guebel, Daniel

United States

Seven Stories Press

A breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an acknowledged Latin American master.\nA brilliant and dark tour de force, Jewish Son presents the delicate archeology of the stubbornness of a boy who demands his parents’ attention. It is a brutal confession of the lies necessary to win a space of approval in a troubled family, a treatise on the excesses of love and the paradoxical lack of affection that is never enough, an accomplished narration of childhood from the point of view of the adult gaze, and a rewriting of Kafka’s Letter to His Father.\nAs his father’s imminent death becomes an ever more concrete reality with surgeries, caregivers, sedatives and his mother grows obsessed with visits to the rabbi and amasses saint cards and Buddhist prayers, the narrator evokes the remnants of the rejection that pervaded his childhood.\nWithout yielding to the idealization of youth or to the delight in pain before physical decay and death, Guebel dissects, beautifully although with discomfort, his very early conversion to the dream of literature as an act of reparation.

The Jewish Son: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Seven Stories Press UK

L'Absolu

Gallimard]

El absoluto / The Absolute (MAPA DE LAS LENGUAS) (Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

Literatura Random House

«La venganza no se produce de la manera esperada por nadie. La preocupación, finalmente, es encontrar el pase mágico que permita la comprensión de la existencia». -Mariana Enriquez &nbsp; «Un hijo no debe vivir bajo el mismo cielo que el asesino de su padre». Con esta frase de Confucio inicia Un crimen japonés, exquisita novela ambientada en el Japón medieval. Yutaka Tanaka, señor feudal de la provincia de Sagami, debe vengar la muerte de su padre, asesinado por una banda de samuráis enmascarados. La investigación del crimen lo lleva a los campos de batalla, a las intrigas cortesanas y sus traiciones. Como un príncipe que no llega a comprender, Yutaka enfrentará la fascinación de los autómatas, las maniobras sentimentales de dama Ashikaga y los secretos del sokushinbutsu. &nbsp; Tan oriental como argentina, la última novela de Daniel Guebel es un relato policial, una especulación sobre los reinos de ultratumba, una fantástica y melancólica historia de amor. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION «Revenge does not occur in the manner anyone expected. In the end, the concern is to find that magical pass that enables the understanding of existence.» --Mariana Enríquez &nbsp; «A son must not live under the same sky as his father's killer.» With this quote by Confucius, A Japanese Crime opens, an exquisite novel set in medieval Japan. Yutaka Tanaka, feudal lord of the Sagami province, must avenge the death of his father, murdered by a group of masked samurai. The crime investigation takes him to battlefields, court intrigues, and betrayals. As a prince who fails to understand, Yutaka will face the allure of automatons, the sentimental maneuvers of lady Ashikaga, and the sokushinbutsu secrets. &nbsp; As much Asian as it is Argentinian, Daniel Guebel's latest novel is a detective story, a speculation about the kingdoms beyond the grave, and a superb and melancholic love story.

Un crimen japonés / A Japanese Crime (Spanish Edition)

Literary

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