(Paperback)
By: Jorge Volpi
ISBN: 9781934824108
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Open Letter
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A murder mystery connecting many of the earth-shaking events of the past 50 years from one of Mexico's hottest authors.
(Paperback)
By: Juan Jose Saer
ISBN: 9781934824207
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Open Letter
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Two friends muse and hypothesize about the grand birthday they missed in the years before Argentina's Dirty War.
(Paperback)
By: Carlos Labbe
ISBN: 9781940953977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Open Letter
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An entirely original novel about the struggle between private and official biographies, and the fleeting nature of collective happiness.
(Paperback)
By: Mathias Enard
ISBN: 9781940953014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Open Letter
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Finalist for the Prix Goncourt, Mathias Enard's coming-of-age novel takes place against the Arab Spring and Spain's financial collapse.
(Paperback)
By: Dubravka Ugresic
ISBN: 9781948830454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Open Letter
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"A blistering, laugh out loud takedown of every aspect of the book industry--from editors to agents to booksellers to best-selling celebs."--
(Paperback)
By: Bragi Olafsson
ISBN: 9781934824139
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Open Letter
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A send-up of a poetry conference (something like AWP) that involves bossy Americans and stolen overcoats.
(Paperback)
By: Rodrigo Fresan
ISBN: 9781940953786
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Open Letter
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A novel of science fiction inspired by Slaughterhouse-Five that is a love letter to the genre as a whole.
(Paperback)
By: Joanes Nielsen
ISBN: 9781940953663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Open Letter
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Life, madness, and death run rampant in this epic novel chronicling the life of one Faroese family.
(Paperback)
By: Rein Raud
ISBN: 9781940953441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Open Letter
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In this spaghetti western, a mysterious man arrives in a corrupt town seeking revenge for his "sister" and upends everything.
(Paperback)
By: Benjamin Stein
ISBN: 9781934824658
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Open Letter
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Wechsler has lost his memory; Amnon can see into people's minds. Their story collide (literally) over a "fake" holocaust memoir.
(Paperback)
By: Kjersti A. Skomsvold
ISBN: 9781948830409
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Open Letter
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"Originally published in 2018 as Barnet by Forlaget Oktober, AS, Oslo."--Title page verso.
(Paperback)
By: Juan Jose Saer
ISBN: 9781940953342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Open Letter
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A doctor leads five mental patients to an asylum in this meditation on exile, madness, and the writing process.
(Paperback)
By: Sergio Chejfec
ISBN: 9781934824436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Open Letter
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New novel from BTBA finalist about a man obsessed with understanding the working-class via a love affair with a woman.
(Paperback)
By: Asta Olivia Nordenhof
ISBN: 9781940953854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Open Letter
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Edgy debut collection steeped in social criticism about mental illness, childhood violence, financial problems, and working in a brothel.
(Paperback)
By: Ingrid Winterbach
ISBN: 9781934824771
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Open Letter
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Whisky, snooker, and erotic dreams amid the smoldering racism and murders plaguing a Free State town in South Africa.
(Paperback)
By: Gaye Kynoch
ISBN: 9781940953694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Open Letter
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A seductive novel of an illicit love affair and one of those summers that changes everyone's life forever.
(Paperback)
By: Ilya Ilf
ISBN: 9781934824078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
UK Publication Date: 15th December 2009
Publisher: Open Letter
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First new translation in 50 years of one of Russia's most beloved--and comic--works of literature.
(Paperback)
By: Ludvik Vaculik
ISBN: 9781934824344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Open Letter
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A clueless bank clerk confused about basically everything "accidentally" tortures a couple guinea pigs.
(Paperback)
By: Sergio Chejfec
ISBN: 9781948830034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Open Letter
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A world-spanning intellectual thriller by a contemporary Argentinian master.
(Paperback)
By: Solvi Bjorn Sigurdsson
ISBN: 9781934824733
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Open Letter
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A mother and son bond over booze and weed, as they travel to Amsterdam for her special cancer treatment.
(Paperback)
By: Esther Allen
ISBN: 9781940953007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Open Letter
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An inside look at Michael Henry Heimone of the most prolific and culturally important translators ever.
(Hardback)
By: Jerzy Pilch
ISBN: 9781934824085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Open Letter
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The funniest novel about an alcoholic writer you'll ever read. And also one of the most tragic.
(Paperback)
By: Macedonio Fernandez
ISBN: 9781934824061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 16th February 2010
Publisher: Open Letter
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A novel decades ahead of its time, and the only work by Jorge Luis Borges's mentor available in English.
(Paperback)
By: Juan Jose Saer
ISBN: 9781934824788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Open Letter
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Featuring some of Saer's most loved characters, The One Before is his first story collection to appear in English.
