Latin American P.O. Box 7328 Redlands CA 92375 Book Store Tel: 800-645-4276 Fax: 909-335-9945 www.latinamericanbooks.com [email protected] Recent Titles from Argentina Literature 1. Abbate, Florencia (Buenos Aires, 1976). FELICES HASTA QUE AMANEZCA. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2017. 240p., wrps. new. Paperback. ISBN: 9789500438995. "Felices hasta que amanezca" is a collection of nine stores that explore the contradictory totality of experience, comprised of good and evil, lies and truth, sordidness and beauty, charm and destruction. The works focus especially on women and their relationships and desires, and include narratives about a photographer obsessed with capturing the essence of her intimate friend from adolescence; a journalist who travels to Beirut and discovers the dark side of her part-time lover; a young writer involved in a bizarre odyssey with a deranged neighbor and two endearing transvestites; a love that dissolves in the sunset of Cabo Polonio; among many other plot lines that are both colloquial and impregnated with poetic lucidity, reflecting the laughter that emerges in despair. (65035) $34.90 2. Abraham, Carlos. BORGES Y LA CIENCIA FICCIÓN: PARTICULARIDADES DE LA ASIMILACIÓN DE UN GÉNERO DE LA LITERATURA DE LAS MASAS POR LA LITERATURA CANÓNICA. Buenos Aires: Fundación CICCUS, 2017. 208p., wrps. New. Paperback. ISBN: 9789876937245. "Borges y la ciencia ficción" is an extensive and detailed study on Jorge Luis Borges's work and its connection with the science fiction genre. Contents include: ""Presupuestos conceptuales y teóricos", "Estado de la investigación en el tema", "Asimilación y reescritura de la ciencia ficción en la obra de Borges", "Borrando de marcas genéricas" and "Apéndice. La ciencia ficción en Adolfo Bioy Casares". (64123) $32.90 3. Abrevaya, Gustavo. EL CRIADERO. Buenos Aires: Editorial Revolver, 2017. 159p., wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9789874626028. "El criadero" takes place in the village Los Huemules. Álvaro, an independent filmmaker, and Alicia, his wife, encounter a mechanical problem on a road trip they're taking, and they must stay in the only hotel in the village. Álvaro has an obsession with recording everything on video, which leads him to accidentally document some dangerous images. When Alicia disappears, Álvaro begins to discover the secrets of the town, and worse, its horrors. (65588) $29.90 4. Absatz, Cecilia and Julian Gorodischer. LOS ATREVIDOS: CRÓNICAS ÍNTIMAS DE LA ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires: Marea, (Ficciones reales, 15), 2018. 352p., wrps. new. Paperback. ISBN: 9789873783692. "Los atrevidos: Crónicas íntimas de la Argentina" explores stories about intimacy and private life which exploded in Argentine journalism after the year 2000 through a compilation of works in which journalists immerse themselves in borrowed worlds. Features works by Cecilia Absatz, Eduardo Berti, Sonia Budassi, Gabriela Cabezón Camara, Martín Caparrós, Cicco, Nicola Costantino, María Sonia Cristof, Esther Díaz, Mariana Enriquez, Leonardo Faccio, and many others. (66682) $34.90 1 5. Acevedo Díaz, Zelmar. EL PIANO DE CHOPIN. Buenos Aires: Voria Stefanovsky Editores , 2017. 302p., photos, wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9789874139054. "El piano de Chopin" is a novel on the Triple Alliance, inspired by the historical figure Mariscal Francisco Solano López. The work does not pay homage to the terrible historical events that created Argentina's misfortunes, but instead transforms them through lyrical prose on delirious armies and bloody battles. Written by award-winning Argentine author Zelmar Acevedo Díaz, who is also the author of "La gaviota". (65578) $39.90 6. Aguirre, Max and Sebastian Dufour . TANGO CRUZADO. Buenos Aires: Hotel de las ideas , 2017. 71p., wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9789874164018. "Tango cruzado" is a graphic novel that takes place in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and New Orleans, centering around an orchestra and a supernatural bandoneon player. Foggy and full of mysteries, this narrative is about the love of music and musicians -- but also offers much more than meets the eye if one knows how to look between the folds of the story. (62624) $29.90 7. Aguirre, Osvaldo. HABLADOS POR LA POESÍA. 14 CONVERSACIONES CON POETAS ARGENTINOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS. Rada Tilly: Espacio Hudson, 2017. 200p., wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9789871904273. "Hablados por la poesía" is a collection of dialogues between Osvaldo Aguirre and 14 contemporary Argentine poets, including: Joaquín Giannuzzi, Aldo F. Oliva, Roberto Rascella, Hugo Padeletti, Ricardo Zalarayán, Néstor Groppa, Darío Canton, Francisco Gandolfo, Hugo Gola, Arnaldo Calveyra, Arturo Carrera, Juan Carlos Moisés, Irene Gruss, and Diana Bellessi. (65220) $34.90 8. Aira, César (Argentina, 1949-) . UN SUEÑO REALIZADO. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2018. 157p. 192p., wrps. new. Paperback. ISBN: 9789500439251. At fifty, the narrator of "Un sueño realizado" is reunited with a woman he's loved since youth, who until then had remained as a platonic, impossible love, always held at a distance. Suddenly, as in the fairy tales, everything comes together and what was once insurmountably difficult becomes easy, almost automatic between them. However, their separation has been long and the past lurks. He carries a history of delinquency and a complicated sentimental relationship. She carries a lifetime of sacrifices and two unfortunate marriages. This work is full of delirious humor, extraordinary inventiveness, audacious language, and games with logic. (66512) $29.90 9. Aira, César (Argentina, 1949) . PRINS. Barcelona: Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial , 2018. 137p., wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9788439734352. "Prins" tells the story of a famous author dedicated to writing gothic novels who has decided to leave the trade definitively. Frustrated and bitter for having allowed his literary aspirations of youth to be buried under the demands of the publishing market, he decides to try opium. To do so, he travels from Buenos Aires on a bus, where he's seated next to a woman named Alicia -- a housewife who could well be the lost love of his time. From there he travels to an underworld known as Antiquity, where a dealer awaits with the key to a new reality. This work is a delirious journey, full of underground labyrinths and secret doors. (66579) $39.90 2 10. Aira, César. ACTOS DE CARIDAD. LOS DOS HOMBRES. EL ILUSTRE MAGO. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2017. 192p., wrps. new. Paperback. ISBN: 9789500438841. "Actos de caridad. Los dos hombres. El ilustre mago" is a collection of three short novels by Argentine writer César Aira, who is also the author of "Ema, la cautiva", "La luz argentina", "La liebre", "Embalse", "Cómo me hice monja", "La guerra de los gimnasios", "Los misterios de Rosario", "Cumpleaños", "Varamo", "El mago", "Yo era una chica moderna", "La villa", "Las conversaciones", "Las aventuras de Barbaverde", "La confesión", "El error", "Los dos hombres", "Relatos reunidos", "Biografía", "Diccionario de autores latinoamericanos", "Copi", and "Alejandro Pizarnik". (65031) $34.90 11. Aira, César. EL GRAN MISTERIO. Buenos Aires: Blatt & Ríos, 2018. 77p., wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 97889873616860. "El gran misterio" is a novel by César Aira set in the positivist climate of Latin America during the 19th century. Aira is also the author of "La luz argentina", "El vestido rosa", "Cómo me hice monja", "La prueba", "Un episodio en la vida del pintor viajero", "Parménides", "Yo era una mujer casada", and "Artform". (65550) $22.90 12. Aira, César. EL JUEGO DE LOS MUNDOS. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 2019. 128p., wrps. new. Paperback. ISBN: 9789500439749. "El juego de los mundos" is a novel by prolific Argentine writer César Aira, who has published titles such as "Ema, la cautiav" (1981), "La luz argentina" (1983), "Compleaños" (2000), "Varamo" (2002), "Yo era una chica moderna" (2004), "La confesión" (2009), and "Prins" (2018), among others.. (68938) $29.90 13. Alcoba, Laura. LA DANZA DE LA ARAÑA Traducción de Mirta Rosenberg y Gastón Navarro. Buenos Aires: Edhasa , 2017. 159p., wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9789876284653. "La danza de la araña" is the final installment in a trilogy by Laura Alcoba -- the work is preceded by "La casa de los conejos", a story that centers around a girl (herself) at the beginning of the Argentine dictatorship, when her father was in jail. In "El azul de las abejas", that same girl reunited with her mother in France, and began a new life, in a new language. In this work, the girl is on the brink of adolescence and more than ever feels trapped between two worlds: one with her mother in another country, full of uncertainties, sudden desires and fears; and one from the past, her early childhood, present in increasingly distant memories, and in the letters she exchanges with her father, still incarcerated in Argentina. At the center of the narrative is a spider that dances in its cage when its owner returns; the owner lets it out, so that it can briefly take advantage of freedom. Through this work, Alcoba weaves the web of a memory marked by pain and loss, both of which are reflected in a pulsating present, anticipating the vertigo of youth and the end of childhood. (65536) $28.90 14. Allami, Liliana (Argentina). LAS COSAS DE FONDO. México, D.F: CIL, (Col. Letras. Narrativa), 2017. 107p., wrps. new. Paperback. ISBN: 9786074955699. "Las cosas de fondo" is a collection of thirteen stories: "Yo, la señorita Cora", "Después de aquello", "Cinco corazones verdes", "Las cosas de fondo", "La otra cara", "Este dolor dormido", "Siempre la misma", "Annette", "Clea", "Por culpa de la lluvia", "Insomnio", "El viejo", and "Lo callado". Written by Liliana Allami, who is also the author of" Para mí que fue por eso", "Un impulso escondido", "Eso sin nombre", "Novia que te veamos", "La vuelta del deseo", "Tres cuentos", and "El verbo justo". (65121) $24.90 3 15. Alonso, Rodolfo. EL USO DE LA PALABRA: POESÍA REUNIDA 1956-1983. Córdoba: Editorial Universitaria Villa María (La Gran Poesía), 2017. 541p., wrps. New . Paperback. ISBN: 9789876993739. "El uso de la palabra: Poesía reunida 1956-1983" is a collection of poetry by renowned Argentine writer Rodolfo Alonso, whose work spans sixteen volumes of poetry, in addition to books of essays and fiction.