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A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth.In Belén López Peiró's Why Did You Come Back Every Summer, family means home and safety, but also pain and betrayal. Her uncle, a police commissioner, sexually abuses her. His wife and daughter shelter, then reject her. Her mother is his sister. And no one wants to believe her.This is a true story of intimate sexual violence. Told in multiple voices, and through r...

An epistolary, fictional account of one woman moving towards happiness in the black community of Colombia's Pacific coast.After a long absence, the writer of these letters has come home to Chocó, to the Afro-Colombian community, to her family, to the sea. This is where the Pacific meets the Caribbean, and where she's establishing herself anew. Tidal Waters is one side of a years-long correspondence describing that homecoming, and her work to b...

Explorers, Dreamers and Thieves is an adventure through memory and archives.This book is an exercise in invention that emerges from the complex history of encounter between Europe and the Americas. Following the success of Untold Microcosms - which saw ten Latin American authors write stories inspired by objects from their countries held by the British Museum - the curatorial team at the Museum and at Hay Festival have joined forces again, thi...

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Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn't exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain.

Life under Brazil's brutal "cordial racism" comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons.

Short descriptionBrutal and overwhelming, Confession wrestles with the legacy of Argentina's past and the passions of one young girl.

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Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science--this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet."--

First published in Spanish as Tierra fresca de su tumba.

This book was originally published in Spanish under the title Villa del Parque in 2016 by Eterna Cadencia (Argentina)"--Page facing title page.

In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milo's slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever that may take him. It's important to calm the cows, especially now that they seem so unsettled: they have be...

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A mil doscientas millas de tierra firme, resistencia raizal, turistas descuidados, y una historia embarrada sobre la conquista convergen para Victoria, quien vuelve a su hogar desde la Ciudad de México lista para descifrarse a sí misma y al lugar de donde viene.Two hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy tourists, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Victoria, home from Mexico City and ready to understand he...

How do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimer's has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you?

Two hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy tourists, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Victoria, home from Mexico City and ready to understand herself and the place she came from.

The history of Peru unfolds in the lives of the descendants of seven children fathered by a Catholic priest and his longtime secret lover.

An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.

What happens when two revolutionaries are left with nothing to believe in, not even each other?

The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.