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"Reinbou is a gem [and] I feel as if I’ve found a treasure at the end of a reader’s rainbow." —Julia Alvarez, author of The Cemetery of Untold Stories and the international bestseller In the Time of the Butterflies "Cabiya evokes the Dominican Republic’s heat and passion with frank and poetic prose ... Read More about Reinbou: A Novel

A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity.... Read More about The Promise

Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2020 From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction. Women play all the time with the great power ... Read More about Nine Moons

venture of the infinite man was Neruda's third book, published in 1926, two years after his widely celebrated Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. In a stark stylistic departure from the love poems, Neruda composed an epic poem in 15 cantos, discarding rhyme, meter, punctuation and capitalizatio... Read More about Venture of the Infinite Man

A Finalist for the Best Translated Book Award Set at the contact zones between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, this is a polyphonic novel, an intense and sometimes funny pharmacopeia of love lost and humanity regained; a most original combination of Caribbean noir and science-fiction addressing is... Read More about Wicked Weeds: A Zombie Novel

Tomás Ugarte, an advertising executive in Santiago, Chile, is grappling with a midlife crisis—turning forty, quitting his job and in the midst of a divorce—when he begins to experience inexplicable episodes of amnesia. Hoping to outrace this dilemma, he plans to travel abroad for a year and chart th... Read More about The Transentients