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But all of this I thought slowly; each word required a scene which was difficult to compose with their faces incomplete, the signs barely visible, the obscure parts of their voices unheard. Then I devoted myself only to watching them, because at that moment the one at a slight remove lit a cigare

Everything, in their presence, acquired gravity, a sense of parting, of bitter oblivion, of mysterious, ineffable ways. Deservedly longlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award Published in 2018 by the excellent small independent publisher And Other Stories, People in the Room was translated by C Leggi tutto

This is the first novel by Norah Lange to be translated into English and it’s just been published by the wonderful independent press And Other Stories . It was written in Spanish and originally published in Argentina in 1950. In her day Lange was a celebrated member of the Argentine literary scene – Leggi tutto

“Yes! Be quiet, because anything is possible once the horse is stopped: slit wrists, a nightgown damp from the heavy drops of their own tears, from the slow trickle of their blood; a delicate, belated haemophilia preventing them from turning over, soaking their hips, their bodies stuffed with sawdus Leggi tutto

¡Qué belleza este libro! ¿Por qué tiene más lectores en inglés que en castellano? Hay una traducción reciente al inglés, aparentemente muy buena. Necesitamos una nueva edición en el idioma original. Una chica va a cerrar la ventana una noche de tormenta y en el momento de la caída de un rayo ve su pr Leggi tutto

Argentine proto-nouveau roman novel with opaque, repetitive prose that becomes increasingly tedious and inscrutable.