Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions

Valeria Luiselli

HarperCollins, UK

Lost Children Archive: A novel

Vintage

The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners (The O. Henry Prize Collection)

Anchor

[Translated by Christina MacSweeney][Read by ]Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary fiction. A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before; his friendships with Nella Larsen, Louis Zukofsky, and Federico García Lorca; and the young woman in a red coat he saw in the windows of passing trains. As the voices of the narrators overlap and merge, they drift into one single stream, an elegiac evocation of love and loss.

Faces in the Crowd

Literature & Fiction

United States

Blackstone Audio

The Story of My Teeth

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Literary short stories by established and emerging writersExcerpts:
 Peter Parsons No One There, No One to Talk to, Nothing to Say I feel I have to bless everyone else I know who has died, and I start naming grandparents, relatives, friends, and how about those who haven't died.
 Alicia Oltuski Let's Take It from the Top "Don't call Dom," my father said to me. I wished he hadn't. Dom had known what to do the time Dad forgot how to swallow for two days, and I suspected she would have known what to do here.
 George Makana Clark Pluto Some people complain that snoring keeps them awake, but there's a rhythm to it, a repetition that says, I trust you, I trust you with my life.
 Tori Malcangio Donna of Mesker Park Zoo Brokaw knows his parents went to bed on November 1 and didn't wake up on November 2. They both stopped breathing because sometimes the gorillas won't mate and sometimes the turnstiles don't work and that's that.
 Katherine Easer Parade of Cats Before he met me, Brandon thought Taiwanese people spoke Thai, and all Asians looked alike. He had never dated anyone who wasn't Aryan, though this wasn't by design.
 Courtney Knowlton Mean Blonde Ponytail Girl I hoped that I could one day do something so generous for my children, but there was a good chance that we'd never be able to. We were teachers, and I was a spender.
 Cady Vishniac Remainders Our shul was a permissive environment, so reasonable and rule free we had trouble thinking up ways to rebel.
 Dan Murphy In Miniature Let's warp speed to feeling okay, okay? Let's get straight back to feeling ... anything other than this.
 Jennifer Wortman Love You. Bye. But it could happen, I say. By your own admission, you never know. She stares at me, her dark eyes darkening. I'm her longtime depressive friend. Why am I on the side of hope?
 Nikole Beckwith The Beginning And then the emergency siren stopped. It was meant to sound three short bursts to punctuate safety, as if to say "The End," but the bursts never came. Just silence.
 Valeria Luiselli Interview by David Naimon That is what it means, in fact, to translate. It comes from the Latin translatio, which means to move something, to carry it over, to transfer it, to take it on a trip from A to B. I think of translation in those terms. I think of many practices as forms of translation.
 Eric Boehling Lewis Blue Ridge Years ago your grandmother told you that the happiest period in her life had slid by, disguised as tedium. Only after the Soviet police killed her husband did she realize she'd been living in a kind of heaven.
 Oguz Dinc The Hurricane We are way behind Americans when it comes to disaster preparation, maybe because we are ahead in fatalism.

Glimmer Train Stories, #101

Dan Murphy

George Makana Clark

David Naimon (interviewer)

Peter Parsons

Alicia Oltuski

Tori Malcangio

Katherine Easer

Courtney Knowlton

Cady Vishniac

Jennifer Wortman

Nikole Beckwith

Eric Boehling Lewis

Oguz Dinc

Glimmer Train Press, Inc.

Granta Books

Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission: he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth. He has a few skills that might help him on his way: he can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums, he can interpret Chinese fortune cookies, he can stand an egg upright on a table, and he can float on his back. And, of course, he is the world's best auction caller - although other people might not realise this, because he is, by nature, very discreet. Studying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke, Highway travels the world, amassing his collection of 'Collectibles' and perfecting his own specialty: the allegoric auction. In his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites, he finds unusual ways to raise the funds, culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection: the teeth of the 'notorious infamous' - Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton, Virginia Woolf et al. Written with elegance, wit and exhilarating boldness, Valeria Luiselli takes us on an idiosyncratic and hugely enjoyable journey that offers an insightful meditation on value, worth and creation, and the points at which they overlap.

Contemporary

False Papers (Chinese Edition)

Shanghai People's Publishing House

Messico

GUADALUPE NETTEL

Carmen Boullosa

Juan Villoro

Aatish Taseer

Pino Cacucci

Dario Alemán

Jacobo García

Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil

Federico Mastrogiovanni

Elena Reina

Iperborea

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