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The day Julio receives the letter from Humahuaca, he thinks there’s been a mistake, believes it’s not meant for him. He put the letter aside and let his attention wander toward the students outside as they welcomed winter.

In the daylight, the house became more human, and the space took on a texture that before had gone unnoticed. Fonseca succeeded in creating this archive, which resembles an escritoire with countless drawers, large and small, each containing a precious gem or another object that relates to a character, a story, or both. He is taken aback by this British young woman who has convinced a newspaper in the UK to hire her as a photographer to document the Sandinista revolution.

La primera de ellas, con la cual se inicia la novela, es la de Aliza Abravanel, una escritora inglesa, escribiendo en castellano, que ha perdido la facultad de hablar (afasia) e intenta terminar su último libro y Julio Gamboa, profesor universitario emocionalmente a la deriva, ex amante de Aliza y quien, tras la muerte de ella en el primer capítulo, termina siendo el responsable de editar y publicar ese último libro titulado Un idioma privado.

Yitzhak visits Karl-Heinz von Mühfeld in a Swiss sanatorium after the anthropologist has been interned there, and experiences firsthand, Mühfeld’s destruction of the cassette tapes he’s worked so hard to record with Juvenal Suárez. We should praise a novel that raises more questions than it answers, since they are such good questions. It opens with Julio Gamboa, Costa Rican by origin and a professor at a university in the US, looking at a postcard sent to him from Humahuaca, Argentina, which he first instinctively see as a desert, then a salt plain, before reminding himself of what he already knows - this is a photograph of dust gathered on glass, the 1920 work Elevage de poussière by Man Ray with Marcel Duchamp: https://davidcampany. However, reading it, he finds out about Aliza’s death and her request that he edit her final manuscript. Olivia had excused herself to make more coffee, and the only thing that moved in the room was the Italian greyhound that had jumped up into the chair she’d just vacated.

She has written two novels, Orange Wine and Holy Viagra, and a play, The Backroom, all dealing with Colombian themes. The light entered obliquely from the west and shone on the wall where a pair of large black-and-white photographs hung. Un año después apareció en la lista Bogotá39, una iniciativa que igualmente reconoce a los escritores jóvenes de América Latina. The book opens with a description of a postcard, an image of a salt flat mine by Man Ray, La poussière, where the salt resembles mounds of dust. Orta Amerika labirentlerinde, Guatemala, San Salvador, Nikaragua’da geçen olaylarla Abravanel’in bulunduğu yerlerde yaşanılanlarla roman olgunlaşır.

Carlos Fonseca se confirma como una de las más potentes voces de la actual literatura latinoamericana con esta deslumbrante radiografía de las huellas que dejamos, las huellas que borramos y las huellas que buscamos reconstruir. The title refers to the detention centre where heroine Anya is held for 10 days on trumped-up charges after attending an anti-corruption rally. von Mühlfeld's had built his career around a theory that all culture was the product of miscegenation and contagion only to be challenged how this could be consistent with a dying language. Translation rights to the novel have already been snapped up by FSG in New York, Gallimard’s new imprint Scribes (France), Wagenbach (Germany), Metis (Turkey) and Kastaniotis (Greece).The brief, precise scenes – incorporating photos, lists and handwritten passages – enable Heringer to cover a great deal in a short space and make a potentially gloomy story into a multilayered celebration of life. His native companion, Juvenal Suárez, representative of an about-to-be dead culture, dresses in contrasting black linen. It opens with a father putting his precious comics out of reach of his soon-to-appear baby son (“a slobbering critter who will scribble on them with obscene crayons”), and moves through a child’s difficult transition from comics to books, an obsessive report on drinking-fountain hygiene that reads like a juvenile Nicholson Baker, and the poetry of his mother’s jigsaw-solving technique.