Rodrigo Márquez Tizano (Mexico City, 1984) is a writer. He has been the editor in chief of VICE magazine in Mexico and Argentina and is a founding editor of La Dulce Ciencia Ediciones, a publishing imprint dedicated to the world of boxing. He received his MFA from NYU and is completing a Ph D at Cornell University. Jakarta is his first novel.
Thomas Bunstead has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, most recently The Optic Nerve by María Gainza and The Nocilla Trilogy by Agustín Fernández Mallo. His own writing has appeared in publications such as the Paris Review Daily, the Times Literary Supplement, and the White Review. He is an editor at the literary translation journal In Other Words.
33 Ebooks von Thomas Bunstead
Rodrigo Márquez Tizano: Jakarta
In a chaotic city, the latest in a line of viruses advances as a man recounts the fated steps that led him to be confined in a room with his lover while catastrophe looms. As he takes inventory …
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Leila Guerriero: A Simple Story
For four minutes and fifty-two seconds, the night became a thing that he pounded with his fist…Every year, at the height of summer, the remote Argentinian village of Laborde holds the prestigious n …
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Nacho Carretero: Snow on the Atlantic
Smuggling has been a way of life in Galicia for millennia. The Romans considered its windswept coast the edge of the world. To the Greeks it was from where Charon ferried souls to the Underworld. Sin …
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€18.48
Agustín Fernández Mallo: Nocilla Experience
Somewhere in Spain, Marc, an avid reader of the Philips Agricultural Guide, pegs mathematical formulas to clotheslines on the roof of an 8-storey building. In London, the artist Jodorkovski spends ho …
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Agustín Fernández Mallo: Nocilla Lab
A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Nocilla Trilogy – Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, and Nocilla Lab – presents multiple narratives of people and places that …
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€7.19
Eduardo Halfon: The Polish Boxer
The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon begins as he searches for his roots and information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at Auschwitz New York Times Editors’ Choice * International Latin …
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Juan José Millás: From the Shadows
Publishers Weekly “Top 10 Books of the Year” selection From one of Spain’s most original authors comes a wild, absurdist story about a lonely man’s misguided attempts to connect Laid off from his job …
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Albert Sanchez Pinol: Victus
A #1 international bestseller reminiscent of the works of Roberto Bolaño, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and Edward Rutherford—a page-turning historical epic, set in early eighteenth-century Spain, ab …
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€25.62
Jordi Llobregat: Secret of Vesalius
Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona.Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just ach …
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€3.99
Nacho Carretero: Snow on the Atlantic
Smuggling has been a way of life in Galicia for millennia. The Romans considered its windswept coast the edge of the world. To the Greeks it was from where Charon ferried souls to the Underworld. Sin …
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€18.52
Maria Gainza: Optic Nerve
A highly original, piercingly beautiful work, full of beautiful shocks I felt like a door had been kicked open in my brain Johanna Thomas-Corr, Observer A woman searches Buenos Aires for the painting …
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Enrique Vila-Matas: A Brief History of Portable Literature
A reader’s fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century Surrealists An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short “history” of a secret society, the Shandies, …
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€12.99
José Pergentino: Red Ants
A literary triumph by one of Mexico’s most promising young authors, Red Ants is the first ever literary translation from the Sierra Zapotec. This vibrant collection of short stories by Pergentino Jos …
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Agustín Fernández Mallo: The Things We’ve Seen
In The Things We’ve Seen, his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, Agustín Fernández Mallo captures the strangeness and interconnectedness of human existence in the twenty-first century. A …
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Margaret Jull Costa: Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories
This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day.Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Mar …
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Sergio del Molino: Skin
Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tat …
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Elena Medel: The Wonders
‚Mesmerising. Medel’s prose is hypnotic – it’s hard to believe this is her first novel.‘ Avni Doshi, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Burnt Sugar ‚A serene and impious novel that puts class, fe …
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Maria Gainza: Portrait of an Unknown Lady
In this dazzling story of art and illusion, secrets and schemes, who is to be trusted – and what is real?From the internationally acclaimed author of Optic Nerve *A TLS Book of the Year*’A writer who …
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Agustín Fernández Mallo: Nocilla Dream
In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree, covered in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Further along U.S. Route 50, a lonely prostitute falls in love with a collector of found photo …
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Juan Villoro: God is Round
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic exploration of soccer—and the passion, hopes, rivalries, superstitions, and global solidarity it inspires—from Juan Villoro, “Mexico’s top fútbol expert” (NBC News). On a p …
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Emiliano Monge: The Arid Sky
“This dark, sprawling novel is the English language debut of Emiliano Monge, a Mexican writer who is often compared to the US literary superstar Cormac Mc Carthy. Written in a tone that evokes Mc Car …
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Juan José Millás: Let No One Sleep
An odyssey of operatic proportions, featuring an obsession-fueled taxi driver After Lucía loses her job at an IT firm, she has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxi …
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Juan Luis Arsuaga & Juan Jose Millas: Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look.Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn t quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if …
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Bernardo Atxaga: Water over Stones
A story of intertwining lives that, like water, run between stones.From childhood friends in a bakery in the mining town of Ugarte, Basque Country, to a group of comrades and their pet magpie in a mi …
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Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel: A History of Lying
Wherever there is life, there are lies. Slick-suited politicians lie on the podium, ready to tell voters what they want to hear. Cheating lovers, swindling businessmen, double-crossing villains – all …
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Agustín Fernández Mallo: The Book of All Loves
In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. O …
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Margaret Jull Costa: Great Spanish Stories
A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates …
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€8.99
Juan Luis Arsuaga & Juan Jose Millas: Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able …
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€24.39
Agustín Fernández Mallo: Nocilla Trilogy
A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustín Fernández Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy – made up of the novels Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience and Nocilla Lab – is a project for our time. Re …
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€4.79
Eduardo Halfon: The Polish Boxer
Eduardo Halfon’s The Polish Boxer is the sparkling English debut from one of Latin America’s most exciting new voices. Blurring the boundary between fiction and memoir, the tales within all reach for …
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