Las Islas

Tibor Fischer wrote about him:"A Peruvian of Japanese forbears who lives in Providence, Rhode Island and who writes about Brazil? Carlos Yushimito is beautifully 21st Century. Everyone is everywhere. Or as Joyce would say, here comes everybody. After Borges, (particularly in the Spanish world) one has to be circumspect about bandying around once-simple words like author and story (I don't think I can ever forgive him for that). Kindly, Yushimito flags up his game straight away. Catch the word 'costume' in the first line of 'Seltz'. Yushimito slips on Brazil just as his protagonist slips on his crocodile costume. The great thing about a costume is that you can see but you can't be seen." This limited edition (first edition; Lima, Peru, 2006) includes eight short stories."In another indication of the trend towards transnational literature, manyof the writers chosen, who include five women, are not living in their native countries, among them four who are now residing in the United States. One of those, Carlos Yushimito, is a Peruvian of Japanese descent who writes mostly about Brazil and is working on a graduate degree at Brown University."I am surprised to have been included, because I'm the kind of writer who has always circulated in small editions by alternative presses, " Mr. Yushimito, 32, said this week in a telephone interview from Providence, R.I. "This puts me in a different sphere, one that is much more public, so I received the news with a mixture of anxiety and curiosity. This certainly opens new panoramas for me, and could change my life, so it will be interesting to see what the repercussions are." (Larry Rother, The New York Times).