Nick Caistor is a British translator and journalist, best known for his translations of Spanish and Portuguese literature. He is a past winner of the Valle-Inclán Prize for translation. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, the BBC World Service, Times Literary Supplement, and The Guardian. He lives in Norwich, and is married to fellow translator Amanda Hopkinson.
61 Электронные книги Nick Caistor
Julian Rios: Procession of Shadows
In the late ’60s, Julián Ríos began work on what would have been his very first novel, but fearing that it wouldn’t pass the stringent Spanish censorship under Franco, decided not to submit the com …
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Andres Neuman: Talking to Ourselves
Sooner or later, we all face loss. Ten-year old Lito is sure that he can change the weather, if only he concentrates very hard. His seriously ill father Mario is anxious to create a life-long memory …
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Sergio Ramirez: Stories
In the two decades since Sergio Ramírez left active politics as a Sandinista leader of one of the great leftist revolutions of the Americas, his output as a writer and the appreciation of his literar …
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Sergio Ramirez: To Bury Our Fathers
Sergio Ramírez, writer and former civilian leader in the Sandinista revolutionary government from 1985-1990, has now won the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Hispanic world. He wrot …
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César Aira: The Proof
Marcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as she’s walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: ‘Wannafuck?’ Startled, she turns round and is confronted by two punk girls Lenin …
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César Aira: The Little Buddhist Monk
In Korea, a little Buddhist monk (really very dwarf-sized) dreams of the Western world and secretly reads up on Western culture. When he meets the holidaying French couple Napoleon Chirac and …
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Rolo Diez: Tequila Blue
“Both a scathing and picaresque comedy, a biting and spicy concoction. Just like tequila.”—Le Monde
It’s not easy being a cop in Mexico City. Meet Carlito, a police detective with a complicated l …
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Andrés Neuman: Traveller of the Century
A novel of philosophy and love, politics and waltzes, history and the here-and-now, Andrés Neuman’s Traveller of the Century is a journey into the soul of Europe, penned by one of the most exciting …
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Nick Caistor: Argentina In Focus
Famous as the birthplace of tango, Argentina has known spectacular prosperity and devastating crises. Once the export powerhouse of Latin America, the country has suffered a cycle of military …
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Nick Caistor: Picking up the Pieces
With the sudden flight of its decade-long dictator Alberto Fujimori in 2001 and the apprehension of his eminence grise Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru has in recent years experienced one of the most …
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Nick Caistor: Chile In Focus
Once a byword for military repression and human rights abuses, Chile’s image is now that of a dynamic success story. The ‘Chilean Miracle’, based on radical free-market reform and export-led growth, …
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Pedro Mairal: Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra
An artist’s sons hunt for their mysterious inheritance: “A pleasure to read . . . One of the most significant Argentine writers working today” (David Leavitt, author …
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Andrés Neuman: The Things We Don’t Do
‘Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature, the kind written by real poets, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps its eyes …
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Paulo Coelho: Devil and Miss Prym
In this stunning novel, Coelho’s unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover.A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack …
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Jose Saramago: Journey to Portugal
The Nobel Prize–winning author explores his homeland in “this monumental work, a literary hybrid” of cultural history, literary nonfiction, and travelogue (Publishers Weekly). …
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Guillermo Orsi: Holy City
A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the R o de la Plata. One by one, its passengers are abducted by Buenos Aires’ criminal classes. As the kidnapping of three foreign businessmen …
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Carolina San n: Children
One day, as she enters her local supermarket, Laura Romero has a startling encounter with a beggar, who seems to offer her a child. A short while later, in the middle of the night, she discovers a …
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Guillermo Orsi: No-One Loves a Policeman
It is December 2001 and Argentina is in political and economic meltdown. Pablo Martelli, once in an elite branch of the police force known to all as the ‘National Shame’, is a shadow of his former …
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Dominique Sylvain: Dark Angel
On the one hand, there’s Lola. A grumpy retired policewoman who cannot get by without her two best friends: red wine and jigsaw puzzles. On the other, there’s Ingrid, an American in love with Paris. …
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Dominique Sylvain: Dirty War
A lawyer who specialises in French-African relations is found brutally murdered after suffering ‘the torture of Father Lebrun’ — a burning tyre is placed around his neck until he suffocates. The case …
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Dominique Sylvain: Shadows and Sun
Lola Jost is busy fending off boredom with a jigsaw puzzle when she hears the news. Arnaud Mars — a disgraced police divisionnaire on the run after a seismic defence contracts scandal — has been …
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Eduardo Mendoza: Englishman in Madrid
Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat’s collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jos Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the …
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Juan Mars: Calligraphy of Dreams
When Se ora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Kid with a riddle he will not unravel until after her death. In Ringo’s Barcelona, life …
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Roberto Arlt: The Seven Madmen
Remo Erdosain’s Buenos Aires is a dim, seething, paranoid hive of hustlers and whores, scoundrels and madmen, and Erdosain feels his soul is as polluted as anything in this dingy city. Possessed by t …
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Lola Lafon: The Little Communist Who Never Smiled
The Montreal Olympics, 1976. A fourteen-year-old girl steps out onto the floor of the Montreal Forum and into history. Twenty seconds on the uneven bars is it all it takes for Nadia Comaneci, the sli …
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Paul Fournel: Anquetil, Alone
Shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards 2018 for Biography of the Year and Cycling Book of the Year There are things he does alone, and things that he alone does. Jacques Anquetil was a cyclist with a …
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Martin Kohan: Seconds Out
New York, 1923, the Argentine Luis Angel Firpo, called the Wild Bull of the Pampas, knocks out of the ring the American Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world. In Buenos Aires, the match is …
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Martin Kohan: School For Patriots
A school assistant in Buenos Aires’ most prestigious state school, Maria Teresa Cornejo’s job is to keep the students in line. Suspecting that some of them are smoking in the school toilets, Maria Te …
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Felix J. Palma: Map of Time
Enter a world of wonder, intrigue, and adventure … London, 1896. Andrew Harrington’s beloved has been murdered by Jack the Ripper. Claire Haggerty longs to escape the constraints of Victorian …
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Felix J. Palma: Map of the Sky
New York, 1898. When millionaire Montgomery Gilmore proposes to beautiful socialite Emma Harlow, she accepts on one condition: he must reproduce the Martian invasion featured in H.G. Wells’s The War …
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Mario Benedetti: Springtime in a Broken Mirror
Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military coup, he can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane. Far away, his nine-year-old daughter …
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Alan Pauls: Past
‘A novel that is brilliant enough to raise itself effortlessly above and beyond the level of the vices it portrays: strange art and reckless passion, cocaine, excessive exercise and other forms of …
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Nick Caistor: Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro had ruled the island of Cuba for fifty-two years when ill health forced him to step down in 2008. Over the course of that time, he changed Cuba from a republic to a communist state and …
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Felix J. Palma: Map of Chaos
The New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time and The Map of the Sky returns with the final instalment in the bestselling, award-winning trilogy that The Washington Post called ‘a big, …
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Maria Duenas: Vineyard in Andalusia
A sweeping historical epic by an author whose novels have sold over 6 million copies worldwide. 1861. A ruined silver-mine owner sets sail from Mexico City to seek his fortune in the New World. Mauro …
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Juan Mars: Snares of Memory
In January 1949 on an otherwise unremarkable day in an unremarkable Barcelona neighbourhood cinema, a prostitute is murdered in cold blood in the projection booth by the assistant projectionist, one …
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Rolo Diez: Tequila Blue
‘Both a scathing and picaresque comedy, a biting and spicy concoction. Just like tequila.’—Le Monde
It’s not easy being a cop in Mexico City. Meet Carlito, a police detective with a complicated …
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Agustín de Rojas: Spiral
The long-awaited capstone to the landmark trilogy that began with A Legend of the Future and The Year 200 by Agustín de Rojas, “one of Cuba’s greatest science fiction writers” — SF Signal
The winne …
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Andres Neuman: Fracture
A survivor of the atomic bombs dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Mr Watanabe has evaded the memory for most of his nomadic life. When the 2011 earthquake strikes, triggering the Fukushima nuclear …
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César Aira: The Little Buddhist Monk & The Proof
Two completely different stories by the inimitable César Aira
The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increa …
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César Aira: The Hare
When a Mapuche chief suddenly goes missing, a British naturalist is asked to find him in the vast Argentine pampas Clarke, a nineteenth-century English naturalist, roams the pampas in search of that …
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Olivier Norek: Lost and the Damned
"Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, Independent Introducing Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on Spiral and an award-winning, million-copy …
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Agustín de Rojas: A Legend of the Future
“Finally, we have the chance to read a landmark work from one of Cuba’s greatest science fiction writers…. If you like intensely psychological sci-fi that deftly piles on the suspense, this novel’s f …
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Raphaelle Giordano: Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One
____________________THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: 2 million copies sold worldwide! A charming, feel-good and universal story of one woman s journey from boredom and dissatisfaction to happiness and …
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Olivier Norek: Breaking Point
Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller"The greatest exponent of the policier at work today" Mark Sanderson, The Times"Exhilarating . . . …
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Ildefonso Falcones: Hand of Fatima
Snared between two cultures and two loves, one man is forced to choose…1564, the Kingdom of Granada. After years of Christian oppression, the Moors take arms and daub the white houses of Sierra …
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Edney Silvestre: Happiness Is Easy
Olavo Bettencourt is an important man, a man of spin. With Brazil adjusting to the new idea of democracy, his PR firm holds the balance of power in its hands. Which has also made Olavo very rich, if …
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Edney Silvestre: If I Close My Eyes Now
If I close my eyes now, I can still feel her blood on my fingers. If only I had closed my eyes then, or kept my mouth shut, not told anyone about our discovery by the swimming hole, we could have …
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Osvaldo Soriano: Winter Quarters
In Winter Quarters two performers past their prime have come to the provincial town of Colonia Vela, the setting of A Funny Dirty Little War, to open a local festival. Strangers to each o …
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Osvaldo Soriano: A Funny Dirty Little War
‘This fierce little novel tells the story of a political confrontation in a remote village in Argentina. Obscure differences between Peronist supporters and leaders escalate in a crescendo of violen …
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Mercedes Núñez Targa: Bearing Witness
‘Thanks to this superb translation, English-language readers finally have access to a classic work of prison literature that has played a major role in keeping alive the memory of the crimes of Franc …
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Andrés Neuman: Sensitive Anatomy
In the era of compulsive touch-ups and digital poses, perhaps it is time to re-read our body in order to rescue it.
The thirty chapters of Sensitive Anatomy form a celebration of the body …
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Andrés Neuman: Once Upon Argentina
Once Upon Argentina tells the sentimental and political story of a family that comes from everywhere, and of a country’s wandering, migratory culture
In the beginning it was Jacobo, born i …
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Mercedes Nunez Targa: Bearing Witness
Thanks to this superb translation, English-language readers finally have access to a classic work of prison literature that has played a major role in keeping alive the memory of the crimes of Franco …
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Cristian Alarcon: Dance for Me When I Die
On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Victor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying …
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