Fiction - World Literature - Argentina

A kaleidoscopic novel by Julio Cortázar, A Certain Lucas contains a series of brilliant, eccentrically interlocking pieces, by turns comic, philosophical, allusive, and always a pleasure to read. In short takes, we are plunged directly into the life of Lucas, learning about his patriotism,...

Set in a stark landscape of cliffs and precipices high above the Argentine pampas, Mariana Travacio's All That Dies in April follows the members of one small family as each makes a solitary journey out of their treacherous mountain home in search of a...

LA NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO ALFAGUARA 2025«La cuidadosa construcción de un deterioro que, aunque transcurra en un país específico, acaba por ser una metáfora distorsionada del espíritu de nuestro tiempo . -Del acta del JuradoLos Esterházy, una pareja excéntrica sin un pasado claro, llegan...

"Berlin Atomized is the world bridged, coupled, and made fast--by the latest lost generation and by Julia Kornberg's border-and-genre-crossing talent, as restless as a flame." --Joshua Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Jewish Book Award winning The Netanyahus A kinetic, globetrotting novel...

"[Bomarzo] is a novel that will make any reader happy.... [A] novel to be read aloud, with the whole family gathered around." --Roberto Bolaño A lavishly written gothic historical fantasy novel that centers around Pier Francesco Orsini, the tortured duke of Bomarzo and creator...

BUE es la ciudad de Buenos Aires hecha novela, una novela que, gracias a la escritura desafiante de un autor capaz de sintetizar de forma poderosa el mundo en que vivimos, supone un auténtico triunfo. No hay nada más único y más diverso que...

Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go.Thirty years ago, in an empty plot of a quiet neighbourhood, a teenage girl's body was found quartered and burned. The investigation ended with no...

Life isn't easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rakä, he's got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, an--as spring blooms in the City of Lights--a budding love...

"I can't remember the last book that pushed science fiction's potential for weirdness as far as Dengue Boy."--The Washington Post "A wildly original anti-capitalist satire."--The Guardian "A psychedelic fever dream."--Esquire "An exuberant, gore-spattered romp of a climate fiction novel, shot through with cosmic terrors...

Diecinueve garras y un pájaro oscuro es la reedición revisada y ampliada del volumen de cuentos publicado en 2016 con el título Antes del encuentro feroz.«Tengo un conejo entre las piernas. Es negro. Yo le digo Roberto, pero se podría llamar Ignacio o incluso...

In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he's brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled: Why? Half-blind and terminally cranky, she does nothing but complain, despite insisting...

Five , selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by "the Duchamp of Latin America" (Natasha Wimmer), brings together--each an astonishing work--Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical Brushstrokes, Princess Springtime, and The Hormone Pill. Following a cast of dreamlike characters including cyber nuns,...

These dazzling stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls erase the fine line between fantasy and reality, and establish her as an impressive literary voice. In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a...

Malén Denis's Lithium is a novel about what cannot be fully named or pinned down. "Language in this book," the author notes, "acts as a pharmakon--both poison and remedy--inviting the reader to navigate its ambivalence. I wrote it by following the golden thread of...

Winner of the 2018 Best Translated Book AwardWinner of the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize, USA & CanadaA dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin,...

"Morel's Invention may be described, without exaggeration, as a perfect novel." --Octavio Paz A new translation of Adolfo Bioy Casares's metaphysical masterpiece, a marvelously plotted story of a fugitive writer who discovers an uncanny phenomenon taking place on his island hideout. Jorge Luis Borges...

An NPR Best Book of 2023 A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our...

PREMIO CLARÍN DE NOVELA «Una novela actual y misteriosa, en la tradición del weird y con citas a Arthur Machen, Lovecraft o Chambers, con algo de terror ecológico y una notable reconstrucción histórica . -Mariana Enriquez Hay algo vivo e inclasificable que recorre el...

"Revelatory and seductive."--Publishers Weekly, starred reviewEnigmatic fictions from a lost master of Argentine literature.A man and woman on a road trip make an unplanned detour to Laar, an empty city of palaces and canals that may be no city at all. Two gaucho rebels...

A fantastical story where the protagonist is caught between reality and the feverish inventions of his mind by a groundbreaking female novelist of Argentina's metaphysical tradition. Available for the first time in English, this classic of Latin American literature--in the tradition of Borges, her...