A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist... A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brink... A sex worker discovers a dark secret among the nuns of the pampas... The mountain fog is not what it seems... Kermit the Frog dreams of murder... In ten chilling stories from an ensemble cast of contemporary Latin American writers, including Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Camila Sosa Villlada (tr. Kit Maude), Claudia Hernández (tr.&nbsp;by Julia Sanches and Johanna Warren) and Mónica Ojeda (tr. Sarah Booker and Noelle de la Paz), horror infiltrates the unexpected, taboo regions of the present-day psyche.

Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories (Calico Series)

Literature & Fiction

ENRIQUEZ, MARIANA

Ojeda, Mónica

Barrientos, Maximiliano

SOSA VILLADA, CAMILA

Downey, Tomás

Isaza, Julián

Guevara, Lina Munar

Oliva, Antonio Diza

United States

Two Lines Press

A modern epic, La desaparición del paisaje tells a story not just of reconciliation, but also of alienation, how when you return to a former place of affection it can feel as if you are a stranger. Vitor Flanagan leaves home from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, for the United States. His mother died when he was young, and as he entered adulthood he began to understand that leaving was the only way to avoid turning into his own father, an alcoholic who fought with anyone who approached him, because in the art of violence there was a rhythm by which he could endure the death of his wife. Twelve years later, Vitor returns to his hometown after having lost touch with everyone he knew. His father has died, but his ghost lives on. With themes of blame, mourning, alcoholism, vengeance, recovery of the left-behind, and middle-class Bolivian life, this novel has the voice of Vitor's father omnipresent, both harmful and redeeming. It deals with the responsibility of outliving your loved ones and the ethics of taking on that kind of solitude—the solitude of being a survivor.

La desaparición del paisaje (Largo recorrido) (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Periferica

The protagonists in these short stories—young at the outset—become acquainted with life and its disappointments through the adventures and experiences narrated in the book's pages. They aspire to become doctors and lawyers, but also rock musicians, and they listen to songs that become the soundtracks first to love and then to their heartbreak. These beautiful and melancholy interconnected stories are about all the subtle disillusionments—and surprises—that accompany the end of youth and the awareness of that end. Additionally, these tales discuss memory, how people live with the past, and how it contaminates thoughts and feelings with the ghosts and the places left behind that can never again be revisited.
Los protagonistas de estos relatos—jóvenes al comienzo—van conociendo la vida y sus derrotas a través de las aventuras y experiencias relatadas a lo largo del libro. Aspiran a ser médicos y abogados, pero también músicos de rock, y escuchan canciones que son banda sonora primero del amor y luego del desamor. Estas hermosas y melancólicas historias interrelacionadas tratan sobre todas las desilusiones sutiles—y las sorpresas—que acompañan el dejar de ser joven y el ser consciente al fin de que se está dejando de serlo. Además, estos cuentos tratan de la memoria, de la forma en que se vive con el pasado y de cómo éste contamina los pensamientos y las emociones con fantasmas y con lugares que se han dejado atrás y a los que nunca más se pueden regresar.

Fotos tuyas cuando empiezas a envejecer (Largo Recorrido) (Spanish Edition)

Literary

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