The Forgery
By: Ave Barrera
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish va…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Me pasé días enteros abstraído, machacando tierras y mezclando los ingredientes. Los vapores de la trementina me sumían en un sopor lúcido del que salía únicamente para cambiar de disco o ir al baño. Era como si el universo se colmara de un mar de azul cobalto o rojo bermellón y no existiera nada más."-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
"Me pasé días enteros abstraído, machacando tierras y mezclando los ingredientes. Los vapores de la trementina me sumían en un sopor lúcido del que salía únicamente para cambiar de disco o ir al baño. Era como si el universo se colmara de un mar de azul cobalto o rojo bermellón y no existiera nada más."-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
"Habían pasado tantos años desde que trabajaba con mi maestro, que me había olvidado de la sensación de estar frente a frente con una obra tan antigua, sin luces de museo, sin una línea que me impidiera aproximarme y tocar las craqueladuras, oler la vejez de los materiales, adivinar las pinceladas debajo de las veladuras y la pátina. Era como traspasar la impostura de la sacralidad para entrar en el cuadro y apropiarme de él, de todo el genio que había detrás de la imagen y que funcionaba como un mecanismo de precisión; el engranaje de un reloj que llevara cientos de años oculto, sin detenerse."-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
"Habían pasado tantos años desde que trabajaba con mi maestro, que me había olvidado de la sensación de estar frente a frente con una obra tan antigua, sin luces de museo, sin una línea que me impidiera aproximarme y tocar las craqueladuras, oler la vejez de los materiales, adivinar las pinceladas debajo de las veladuras y la pátina. Era como traspasar la impostura de la sacralidad para entrar en el cuadro y apropiarme de él, de todo el genio que había detrás de la imagen y que funcionaba como un mecanismo de precisión; el engranaje de un reloj que llevara cientos de años oculto, sin detenerse."-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
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1. Desarticulaciones
By: Sylvia Molloy
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Como pelando una cebolla, capa a capa, el mal de Alzheimer avanza sobre ML., desalojando de su ment… read more
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- spanish literature
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- contemporary
2. Chicas muertas
By: Selva Almada
3.18
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas en los anos ochenta, tres muertes impunes ocurridas cuan… read more
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3. Pajarito
By: None
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Aqui dentro hay un escritor que colecciona tornillos, un enfermero peculiar, trabajos en hoteles y … read more
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4. Near to the Wild Heart
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Near to the Wild Heart is Clarice Lispector's first novel, written from March to November 1942 and … read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"What does it feel like to have a girl?"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She felt the phrase “demand her rights"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"Words are pebbles rolling in the river"-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
"She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself."-Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
5. Multiple Choice
By: Alejandro Zambra , Megan McDowell
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Multiple Choiceis unlike anything I've ever encountered before. . . . Reading this book is a wonde… read more
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6. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
7. Loop
By: Brenda Lozano
3.74
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
Loop is a love story narrated from the point of view of a woman who waits for her boyfriend Jonás t… read more
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- literary fiction
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Change. Unlearning yourself is more important than knowing yourself."-Brenda Lozano, Loop
"Childhood is so uncertain, so distant. It's almost like childhood is the origin of fiction: describing any past event over and over to see how far away you are getting from reality."-Brenda Lozano, Loop
"I was left with a scar. I think telling stories is a way of putting a scar into words. Since not all blows or falls leave marks, the words are there, ready to be put together in different ways, anywh…"-Brenda Lozano, Loop
"...the present is also, as its name suggests, a gift. It doesn't suggest longing or loss. It's just a present, a gift, a time with no strings attached which is totally ours, to use however we want, h…"-Brenda Lozano, Loop
8. A Little Luck
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.29
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
After twenty years, a woman returns to the suburban Argentina she had fled to escape a dreadful acc… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Para escribir un diario hay que tener una seguridad del valor que tiene contar la vida propia que yo no tengo."-Claudia Piñeiro, A Little Luck
9. The Taiga Syndrome
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
3.48
Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition
A fairy tale run amok, The Taiga Syndrome follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a cou… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"...in the same way, just like being in love, being out of love also ends one day."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"In fairy tales, the wolf is always ferocious. Astute and agile, the wolf always figures out how to get its way. … The Wolf, in other words, always wins."-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"Places where sex is sold are the same everywhere. They always have a viewing window or something similar: a bar, a walkway, a stage where you can see bodies and, if permitted, feel them. It has to be…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
"Failures weigh people down. Writing reports of all the cases I was unable to solve, however, had helped me to tell stories, or at least get them down on paper, as they say. Whether I was obeying or t…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, The Taiga Syndrome
10. No es un río
By: Selva Almada
3.95
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- novella
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
11. Simpatía
By: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Rodrigo Blanco se ha consolidado como una de las grandes voces de la literatura latinoamericana y s… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
12. The Forgery
By: Ave Barrera
3.91
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish va… read more
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- art
- literary fiction
- female authors
- literature
- novella
- spanish literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Me pasé días enteros abstraído, machacando tierras y mezclando los ingredientes. Los vapores de la trementina me sumían en un sopor lúcido del que salía únicamente para cambiar de disco o ir al baño.…"-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
"Habían pasado tantos años desde que trabajaba con mi maestro, que me había olvidado de la sensación de estar frente a frente con una obra tan antigua, sin luces de museo, sin una línea que me impidie…"-Ave Barrera, The Forgery
13. My Death
By: Lisa Tuttle
3.98
Format: 93 pages, Paperback
A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
14. My Work
By: Olga Ravn
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In this radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood, Anna is utterly lost after g… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
15. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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- literary fiction
- novella
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
16. Two Sherpas
By: Sebastián Martínez Daniell
3.62
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpa… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- novella
- spanish literature
- fiction
- novels
"One minute it represents the pinnacle of gregarious engineering, the most refined Apollonian mechanism of social regulation; the next it’s a groping homunculus spewing pus and other people’s blood on…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"Actions, thoughts, interpretations, dialogues and soliloquies, sufferings… are nothing more than intermittently surging projections, stamps on the surface of the knowable. Symptoms. The real is in th…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"Although it could be argued that every voyage already contains, in latent form, the possibility of its deviations. That they’re never random. That nor are they predestined. But they are larval, that …"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"It’s a brief moment before the word is returned to the box of the irreversible, before it makes itself present with its flotilla of tragic predestinations. A regrettable loss, a true disaster. The li…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
17. Of Cattle and Men
By: Ana Paula Maia
3.97
Format: 99 pages, Paperback
Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men
18. The Rooftop
By: Fernanda Trías
3.77
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
‘The world is this house’, says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the worl… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- novella
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
19. Tierra fresca de su tumba
By: Giovanna Rivero
3.86
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Los extraños y maravillosos cuentos de Tierra Fresca de su Tumba nos arrojan a lugares desconocidos… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Nuestra casa era una prodigiosa zarza ardiente que lamía los troncos de los árboles y avanzaba como una legión por el huerto. Supe que el sonido de esa crepitación descomunal era el de todos los esqu…"-Giovanna Rivero, Tierra fresca de su tumba
20. Homesick
By: Jennifer Croft
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language… read more
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- literary fiction
21. La hijastra
By: Caroline Blackwood
3.53
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Una mujer en la treintena escribe mentalmente, firmando con la inicial «J», cartas sin destinatario… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
