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 …
Want to Read $ 13.75"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
"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
"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
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1. Ladrilleros
By: Selva Almada
4.16
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Luego de El viento que arrasa, su primera novela, verdadero acontecimiento literario debido a la gr… read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
"A knife is almost like a continuation of your arm; you’d feel the other man’s life slipping out through the wound, the enemy blood gushing up the handle and wetting your clenched fist."-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
"Antes de decirle que sí al cura, Celina le había dicho que sí a su novio, a la urgencia de sus besos que le dejaban el cuello y los hombros llenos de pequeños moretones. Que era como decirle, también…"-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
"Marciano solía sentarse afuera las noches en que el calor hacía imposible quedarse adentro. Es decir, casi todas las noches del año, excepto las del invierno, tan breve como un suspiro. Todo el barri…"-Selva Almada, Ladrilleros
2. Precoz
By: Ariana Harwicz
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
En Precoz, madre e hijo viven aislados en una casa con madera acumulada en la puerta, ranchos sin t… read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
3. Aquí no es Miami
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sór… read more
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- latin american
"El estilo narrativo de Jorge me intrigaba: sabía entretejer el relato directo de lo sucedido con fragmentos de diálogo, con ademanes aferrados a su cuerpo, con sus propios pensamientos, los presentes…"-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami
"Siempre me ha parecido inquietante la contigüidad que existe entre la crónica de sociales y la nota roja, no sólo porque estas dos secciones suelen aparecer juntas en los diarios del puerto (a menudo…"-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami
4. 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
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
"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
5. 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
- novella
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
6. Headshot
By: Rita Bullwinkel
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
7. The Long Form
By: Kate Briggs
4.09
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Helen and her young baby, Rose, are awake. It is first thing on a new morning. They move, they rest… read more
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- 21st century
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"For what if it were easier to love a pattern when you were a pattern yourself? When social life required that you fall into its established patterns, starting with the basic division of day and night…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to o…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to …"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
"I know time. I know time differently now. I know it because I am unlearning it. I know it because the baby is teaching me that the rhythms of the clock and the calendar, and even the most elemental d…"-Kate Briggs, The Long Form
8. 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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- 21st century
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
9. 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
- thriller
- horror
10. Para hechizar a un cazador
By: Luciano Lamberti
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
«Hace rato que vengo mirándote [...]. Espiándote, para ser más precisa». Julia escucha en un bar a … read more
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- fiction
- horror
11. 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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- novella
- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
"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
12. La encomienda
By: Margarita García Robayo
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
La narradora de estas páginas vive a cinco mil kilómetros de su país natal, trabaja para una agenci… read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
"How quickly the shell of a routine is shattered. Any routine, however solid it may be, is obliterated by the unexpected."-Margarita García Robayo, La encomienda
"When I meet the parents of someone close to me, I can't help but imagine the boy or girl they once were, bring them onstage to pose beside their older incarnation. Something about that picture oppres…"-Margarita García Robayo, La encomienda
"I felt I had the right to not be a trustworthy person. It was good to make that clear, even if it worked against my professional future; from now on you should be aware that assigning me a job includ…"-Margarita García Robayo, La encomienda
"When she notices my silence she goes quiet and sighs. I guess she, too, gets fed up with the weight of incomprehension. I guess that on top of seeming like a sister who is detached, dejected and disc…"-Margarita García Robayo, La encomienda
13. 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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- literary fiction
- novella
- brazil
- latin american
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- fiction
- horror
- 21st century
- thriller
- 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
14. Basura
By: Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny
4.18
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Alicia fue abandonada de niña en el basurero municipal de Ciudad Juárez; su diario rascar en busca … read more
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- fiction
"Hogar es donde uno va, hogar es uno, es su frase favorita."-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura
"Mi tía les demostró lo que nuestra sociedad se niega a entender: una mujer sola es capaz de mucho. De todo."-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura
"No sé cómo lo imaginé, supongo que esperaba silencio o gritos, porque así se comunican la rabia y la tristeza."-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura
"Tú me ves aquí como santa matrona del trabajo en esa esquina a la que ni el olvido llega, pero ya te dije que yo tenía una vida soñada."-Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny, Basura
15. 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
- novella
- latin american
- fiction
- horror
- contemporary
16. The President's Room
By: Ricardo Romero
3.56
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
In a nameless, homogenised suburb, every house has a room reserved for the president. No one knows … read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
17. Home Reading Service
By: Fabio Morábito
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his pu… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. El rastro
By: Margo Glantz
3.43
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
El corazón, dice Pascal, tiene razones que la razón desconoce. Este conocido aforismo del filósofo … read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- latin american
- fiction
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
- latin american
- fiction
- contemporary
- horror
"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. Una cita con la Lady
By: Mateo García Elizondo
3.76
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
«Vine a Zapotal para morirme de una buena vez. En cuanto puse un pie en el pueblo me deshice de lo … read more
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- fiction
- horror
21. Living Things
By: Munir Hachemi
3.82
Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition
Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid t… read more
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- novella
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
