Results for "Schnee, Samantha"

A brilliant, feminist twist on the Book of Genesis from Carmen Boullosa. What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one parts, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis:... Read More about The Book of Eve

A contemporary classic from award-winning author Carmen Boullosa, in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Louis Borge and Cesair Aira, now available in a special 10th anniversary edition. Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, Texas: The Great Theft is a richly i... Read More about Texas: The Great Theft: 10th Anniversary Edition

A historical examination of tension and conflict on the Texas-Mexico border, told from the Mexican perspective, that's especially relevant today.... Read More about Texas: The Great Theft

Saint Petersburg, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the vivid portrait that the tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts Anna wrote just before her death, which open a... Read More about The Book of Anna

Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, this collection transports us to the frontiers of twenty-first century literature.   In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature–among them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick, Javi... Read More about Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology

Jeannette L. Clariond's GODDESSES OF WATER draws upon Mesoamerican cosmogony to lament the present-day epidemic of femicides in Mexico. Translated by Samantha Schnee. Mexican poet Jeannette L. Clariond's sixth book in English translation reconstructs the myth of the moon goddess Coyolxauhqui, employ... Read More about Goddesses of Water