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Tender and compassionate, bursting with ribald humour, American Abductions is a literary tour-de-force from a celebrated young writer

After her father is abducted by immigration officials before her eyes and deported to Colombia, Ada and her sister are left in an America as all-seeing as it is hostile, torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Cárdenas' story unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of racism and xenophobia.American Abductions opens in a near-future America whose omnipresence of data-harvesting and algorithms has enabled the mass incarcerati...

A modernist tour de force from an exhilarating new talent

Mauro Javier Cárdenas, the critically acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again-"an original, insubordinate novel" (The New York Times)-pens a profound story of literature about a man coming to terms with his dysfunctional Colombian family, as well as his own behavior, as an immigrant in AmericaAntonio wants to avoid thinking about his sister, even though he knows he won't be able to avoid thinking about his sister, because his sister ...

Nostalgia collides head-first with regret as a man comes to terms with his dysfunctional Colombian family, and with what it means to be an immigrant in today's America

Mauro Javier Cárdenas, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again-"an original, insubordinate novel" (New York Times)-pens a profound story of literature about a man coming to terms with his dysfunctional Colombian family, as well as his own behavior, as an immigrant in America. Antonio wants to avoid thinking about his sister-even though he knows he won't be able to avoid thinking about his sister-because his sister is o...

Three childhood friends reunite to transform Ecuador only find their idealism has succumbed to the cynicism of their fathers.