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Today @lithub excerpted the opening chapter of Lojze Kovačič's Newcomers: Book Two, in which a gigantic bronze statue is chopped down, toast is prized above all else, and boys get up to no good at the movies...
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Ken Langer writes in @Harvard_Review that in reading Karthika Naïr's Until the Lions, "I felt as if I had scratched the surface of a palimpsest (the epic) and discovered a room teeming with three-dimensional living souls." https://t.co/3kMUuE5pM5

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We’re thrilled to announce that Roger Mello's Charcoal Boys, translated by @danielhahn02, is featured on @USBBY's 2020 Outstanding International Books List. Thank you and congratulations to both Roger and Daniel!
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Hebe Uhart's The Scent of Buenos Aires has been nominated as a finalist for the @PENamerica Literary Awards! Congratulations to our translator Maureen Shaughnessy for this great honor.
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"An intensely skeptical writer whose structural innovations never got in the way of his fundamental task: reacting to life, reconstructing it in writing, peeling away the superfluous, and uncovering the essential." José Darío Martínez on Onetti https://t.co/iCAEtoIlOH

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"Wrenching individualism, yearning, humor, desires, and pathos...." @KirkusReviews says you can leaf through I WISH over and over again. Our latest Elsewhere Editions gem can be yours on March 31st!

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"(Tomás González and Héctor Abad) do agree...that in order to see through the plots and schemes of the patriarchs, to wrestle with their legacies, one needs to have seen them first with burning love." —Héctor Hoyos on The Storm and The Farm in @PublicBooks https://t.co/IYWOZAFyJh

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We are so proud that The Scent of Buenos Aires is included among these stellar titles for @believermag's Fiction Longlist! Thank you and congratulations to Maureen Shaughnessy, Hebe Uhart's wonderful translator. https://t.co/EzlL9tm2tl

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The Fiction Longlist: https://t.co/G20Z9X0D9N @FitzcarraldoEds @groveatlantic @EuropaEditions @fsgbooks @TwoDollarRadio @DandQ @mcdbooks @NewDirections @archipelagobks @coachhousebooks @DorothyProject https://t.co/ZOx6rC3CWD

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"Onetti writes unsparingly about cruelty. He separates the naïve from the innocent. The first are irresponsible and the latter, more than victims, phantoms. Each of these fifty stories portray the moment when actions becoming irreversible, when dreams come true." https://t.co/SFzkzlsE0D

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January recommendations from the staff at Seven Stories Press, featuring the likes of @archipelagobks @ABRAMSbooks @PicadorUSA @BloomsburyPub @eccobooks @AAKnopf @replyall

This month, our book recommendations link directly to our friends at @bookculture

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Next Tuesday! :-) https://t.co/vW4tm1aYnd

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Kovačič from Slovenia, Agualusa from Angola, and Giono and Pey from France all on this @nytimes 2020 reading list.
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@JonathanBlitzer in @NewYorker on @katalinasilver's translation of Juan Carlos Onetti. Classic Onettian deranged bitterness below! https://t.co/NVo10XMjc8

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"One of the greatest Latin-American writers of the 20th century...Onetti never received the international recognition of his peers...The 1st major English translation of his collected stories, A Dream Come True, brings the author’s talents into full view." https://t.co/BuwDmaORIL

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Archipelago Books

A not-for-profit press devoted to publishing excellent translations of classic and contemporary world literature. In our first fifteen years, we have brought out close to two hundred books from more than thirty-five languages.

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