Results for "Rey Rosa, Rodrigo"

A Crime Reads Best International Crime Fiction of 2023 - One of Crime Reads most anticipated LatinX Horror and Crime Fiction of 2023 This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet. Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, t... Read More about The Country of Toó (Biblioasis International Translation)

La última y enigmática novela del Premio Nacional de Literatura de Guatemala Miguel Ángel Asturias y del Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras José Donoso, entre otros. «Rey Rosa es un maestro consumado, el mejor de mi generación». Roberto Bolaño «Hacía tanto tiempo que no se sentía tan triste. Un... Read More about Metempsicosis / Metempsychosis

From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories--at once brutal and intensely lyrical--are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins. Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their action occurs, Rey Rosa's tales give the sense... Read More about The Beggar's Knife

Set in Guatemala, these spare and beautiful tales are linked by themes of magic, violence, and the fragility of existence. Paul Bowle's translation perfectly captures Rey Rosa's stories of the haunted lives of ordinary people in present-day Central America. "A genuinely surprising and original set o... Read More about Dust on Her Tongue

This muscular, starkly impressive novel from Guatemala's premiere young writer fiercely addresses the seemingly endless violence of Latin America. A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is kidnapped in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. T... Read More about The Good Cripple

More than a decade ago, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa made his first visit to the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, scanned, and eventually published online. Bringing to light detailed evidence of crimes against humanit... Read More about Human Matter: A Fiction (Latin American Literature in Translation)