Invisible Years

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A generational novel about the unknowns and uncertainties of coming of age.

Twenty-one years after graduating highschool, two friends meet to reminisce about their common past, a past that one of them is transforming into a novel. Thus, they engage in a relentless conversation about the lies and truth of that time involving scandal in a conservative town in 1990s Bolivia.

Andrea and Julin, drink and talk while bar-hopping in Houston. As the hours pass, the meeting brings to light that tragic March that no one could forget, one that forever marked their group of upper-class friends in Cochabamba, the city from which they escaped and do not intend to return. The group, still impacted by their final year of high school, learn that every action has lasting consequences.

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Rodrigo Hasbn (b.1981) is a Bolivian novelist of Palestinian descent. He is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories. In 2007 he was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the Bogota's best Latin American authors under the age of 39. In 2010 he was chosen as one of Granta's Twenty Best Spanish writers under the age of 35. His work has appeared in Granta, McSweeney's, Zoetrope: All-Story, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. His second novel, Affections, received an English PEN Award and has been published in twelve languages. Hasbn is now living and working in Houston.

Lily Meyer is a translator, critic, and author of the novel Short War (Deep Vellum). A contributing writer at The Atlantic, her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso's story collections Little Bird (Deep Vellum) and Ice for Martians (Columbia University Press). Her novel The End of Romance is forthcoming from Viking.