Multiple award winning, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following "Smoke and Mirrors" and "Fragile Things"--which includes a never-before published "American Gods" story, "Black Dog," written exclusively for this volume.

In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. "Trigger Warning" includes previously published pieces of short fiction--stories, verse, and a very special "Doctor Who" story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013--as well "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of "American Gods", exclusive to this collection.

"Trigger Warning" explores the masks we all wear and the people we are beneath them to reveal our vulnerabilities and our truest selves. Here is a rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion. In "Adventure Story"--a thematic companion to "The Ocean at the End of the Lane"--Gaiman ponders death and the way people take their stories with them when they die. His social media experience "A Calendar of Tales" are short takes inspired by replies to fan tweets about the months of the year--stories of pirates and the March winds, an igloo made of books, and a Mother's Day card that portends disturbances in the universe. Gaiman offers his own ingenious spin on "Sherlock Holmes" in his award-nominated mystery tale "The Case of Death and Honey". And "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we're all alone in the darkness.

A sophisticated writer whose creative genius is unparalleled, Gaiman entrances with his literary alchemy, transporting us deep into the realm of imagination, where the fantastical becomes real and the everyday incandescent. Full of wonder and terror, surprises and amusements, "Trigger Warning" is a treasury of delights that engage the mind, stir the heart, and shake the soul from one of the most unique and popular literary artists of our day.

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

An exhilarating look at a place that still retains the exotic mystery of a far-off, unseen land, Bruce Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through Patagonia teems with evocative descriptions, remarkable bits of history, and unforgettable anecdotes. Fueled by an unmistakable lust for life and adventure and a singular gift for storytelling, Chatwin treks through “the uttermost part of the earth”— that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcome—in search of almost forgotten legends, the descendants of Welsh immigrants, and the log cabin built by Butch Cassidy. An instant classic upon its publication in 1977, In Patagonia is a masterpiece that has cast a long shadow upon the literary world.

In Patagonia

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears at his potential new school, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.

In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

The Honorary Consul is a British thriller novel by Graham Greene, published in 1973. It was one of the author's favourite works.

The story is set in an unnamed city in northern Argentina, near the border with Paraguay which can be assumed to be the city of Corrientes.

The Honorary Consul

In the heart of Argentina’s Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won’t accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence--and denies a checkered history that only Kaddish holds dear.

The long-awaited novel from Nathan Englander, author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. Englander’s wondrous and much-heralded collection of stories won the 2000 Pen/Malamud Award and was translated into more than a dozen languages. 

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina’s Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won’t accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a community that denies his existence--and denies a checkered history that only Kaddish holds dear. When the nightmare of the disappeared children brings the Poznan family to its knees, they are thrust into the unyielding corridors of the Ministry of Special Cases, the refuge of last resort. 

Nathan Englander’s first novel is a timeless story of fathers and sons. In a world turned upside down, where the past and the future, the nature of truth itself, all take shape according to a corrupt government’s whims, one man--one spectacularly hopeless man--fights to overcome his history and his name, and, if for only once in his life, to put things right. Here again are all the marvelous qualities for which Englander’s first book was immediately beloved: his exuberant wit and invention, his cosmic sense of the absurd, his genius for balancing joyfulness and despair. Through the devastation of a single family, Englander captures, indelibly, the grief of a nation. The Ministry of Special Cases, like Englander’s stories before it, is a celebration of our humanity, in all its weakness, and--despite that--hope.

The Ministry of Special Cases

A sinisterly funny modern-day "Through the Looking Glass" that begins with cyanide poisoning and ends in strawberry ice cream.""My story, the story of 'how I became a nun,' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after, everything is an extension of the same vivid memory, continuous and unbroken, including the intervals of sleep, up to the point where I took the veil ."" So starts Cesar Aira's astounding "autobiographical" novel. Intense and perfect, this invented narrative of childhood experience bristles with dramatic humor at each stage of growing up: a first ice cream, school, reading, games, friendship. The novel begins in Aira's hometown, Coronel Pringles. As self-awareness grows, the story rushes forward in a torrent of anecdotes which transform a world of uneventful happiness into something else: the anecdote becomes adventure, and adventure, fable, and then legend. Between memory and oblivion, reality and fiction, Cesar Aira's "How I Became a Nun" retains childhood's main treasures: the reality of fable and the delirium of invention.

A few days after his fiftieth birthday, Aira noticed the thin rim of the moon, visible despite the rising sun. When his wife explained the phenomenon to him he was shocked that for fifty years he had known nothing about "something so obvious, so visible." This epiphany led him to write "How I Became a Nun". With a subtle and melancholic sense of humor he reflects on his failures, on the meaning of life, and the importance of literature.

How I Became a Nun

Santa Evita

"An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter" is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to travel West from Europe to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture into Latin America. However this is not a biography of Rugendas. This work of fiction weaves an almost surreal history around the secret objective behind Rugendas's trips to America: to visit Argentina in order to achieve in art the "physiognomic totality" of von Humboldt's scientific vision of the whole. Rugendas is convinced that only in the mysterious vastness of the immense plains will he find true inspiration. A brief and dramatic visit to Mendosa gives him the chance to fulfill his dream. From there he travels straight out onto the pampas, praying for that impossible moment, which would come only at an immense price—an almost monstrously exorbitant price that would ultimately challenge his drawing, and force him to create a new way of making art. A strange episode that he could not avoid absorbing savagely into his own body interrupts the trip and irreversibly and explosively marks him for life.

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

"Respiración artificial" se trata no sólo del único libro memorable publicado durante el período de la dictadura militar (la edición original es de 1980), sino también de una espléndida ficción que se convierte en espejo de la historia, de una novela que, utilizando la estructura de la novela policíaca -para Piglia éste es uno de los géneros fundamentales de la literatura contemporánea-, puede leerse como una indagación sobre los enigmas de épocas convulsas, de personajes oscuros.

El joven escritor Emilio Renzi -que reaparecerá luego en otras obras de Piglia- ha escrito su primer libro, la narración conjentural de una historia que circulaba en su familia en varias versiones. Y es entonces, tras la publicación de aquel relato de equívocas traiciones y castigos, cuando Renzi conoce por fin al protagonista, su tío Marcelo Maggi. A finales de los años setenta, Maggi vive en provincias, en una ciudad fronteriza, dedicado a descifrar las cartas y papeles de Enrique Ossorio, el secretario privado de Juan Manuel de Rosas, un personaje que habría podido ser un héroe, y de quien se sospecha que fue un traidor. De Renzi a Maggi, y de éste a Ossorio: casi sin darnos cuenta hemos retrocedido ciento treinta años y se ha borrado la frontera entre literatura e historia, entre realidad y ficción. Ossorio se suicidó en Chile, en 1850, poco antes de la caída de Rosas, después de un vertiginoso exilio. En sus largas conversaciones, Renzi y Maggi intentan aclarar ese y otros muchos enigmas. Y también encontramos al polaco Tardewski (detrás del cual se esconde, o quizá se muestra, la figura del genial Witold Gombrowicz), quien refiere un encuentro tan posible como inverosímil entre Hitler y Kafka en la Praga de los años veinte; y al paranoico Arocena que, como un lector de novelas policíacas, busca en cada frase la clave que permita descifrar el entero enigma. Y así, a través de exilios y cartas, de libros y de retazos de historia, de vidas desgarradas y relatos inconclusos, se trama una de las novelas más radicalmente originales y atractivas en castellano de las últimas décadas. 

"Respiración artificial" es la irrefutable respuesta a quienes se pregunten por qué, tras la muerte de Borges y Bioy Casares, Piglia se convirtiera en la figura que heredó el cetro de la literatura argentina.

Respiración artificial

The American debut of one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a daring, deeply affecting novel about the secrets buried in the past of an Argentine family-a story of fathers and sons, corruption and responsibility, memory and history, with a mystery at its heart.

A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say good-bye to his dying father. In his parents' house, he finds a cache of documents-articles, maps, photographs-and unwittingly begins to unearth his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man. Suddenly he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of Argentina's dark political past and with the long-hidden memories of his family's underground resistance against an oppressive military regime. As the fragments of the narrator's investigation fall into place-revealing not only a part of his father's life he had tried to forget but also the legacy of an entire generation- "My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain" tells a completely original story of family and remembrance. It is an audacious accomplishment by an internationally acclaimed voice poised to garner equal acclaim in America.

My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain

This is a poem of protest drawn from the life of the gaucho, who was forced to yield his freedom and individuality to the social and material changes that invaded his beloved pampas--a protest which arose from years of abuse and neglect suffered from landowners, militarists, and the Argentine political establishment.

This poem, composed and first published more than a century ago, could have been written today by spokesmen for other oppressed groups in other parts of the world. For this reason, perhaps, the poem has such universal appeal that it has been translated into nineteen languages, making it available to more than half of the world's people.

Hernandez's poem was an attempt to alert the government, and particularly the city dwellers, to the problems faced by the gaucho minority in adjusting to the new, unfamiliar culture imposed on them by the Central Government soon after the fall of the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1852, under the slogan "Politics of Progress." Moreover, the poem supplied a historical link to the gauchos' contribution to the national development of Argentina, for the gaucho had performed a major role in the country's independence from Spain. They had also fought in the civil wars of Argentina and had cleared the pampas of marauding Indian bands that plagued the pastoral development of the region. According to Hernandes they had been by turns abused, neglected, and finally dispersed, ultimately losing their identity as a social group.

Those interested in the Martin Fierro as literature, as social protest, as anthropology, or as an example of the annihilation of a minority group--and its very identity--have joined in making it the most widely read, analyzed, and discussed literary work produced in Argentina. Now, after several hundred editions in Spanish and other languages, Martin Fierro is recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

The aim of this English version has been to achieve a line-by-line rendition faithful to the original in substance and tone, but without attempting to recreate Hernandez's meter or rhyme. The translators present it here as a catalyst for enjoyment, provocation, and insight.

The Gaucho Martín Fierro (Martín Fierro, #1)

A modernist urban novel in the tradition of James Joyce, "Adam Buenosayres" is a tour-de-force that does for Buenos Aires what Carlos Fuentes did for Mexico City or José Lezama Lima did for Havana - chronicles a city teeming with life in all its clever and crass, rude and intelligent forms. Employing a range of literary styles and a variety of voices, Leopoldo Marechal parodies and celebrates Argentina's most brilliant literary and artistic generation, the martinfierristas of the 1920s, among them Jorge Luis Borges. 

First published in 1948 during the polarizing reign of Juan Perón, the novel was hailed by Julio Cortázar as an extraordinary event in twentieth-century Argentine literature. Set over the course of three break-neck days, "Adam Buenosayres" follows the protagonist through an apparent metaphysical awakening, a battle for his soul fought by angels and demons, and a descent through a place resembling a comic version of Dante's hell. 

Presenting both a breathtaking translation and thorough explanatory notes, Norman Cheadle captures the limitless language of Marechal's original and guides the reader along an unmatched journey through the culture of Buenos Aires. This first-ever English translation brings to light Marechal's masterwork with an introduction outlining the novel's importance in various contexts - Argentine, Latin American, and world literature - and with notes illuminating its literary, cultural, and historical references. 

A salient feature of the Argentine canon, "Adam Buenosayres" is both a path-breaking novel and a key text for understanding Argentina's cultural and political history.

Adam Buenosayres: A Critical Edition

Life is an Open Secret is a book written with the beautiful and ancient art of storytelling. It represents the reality of life challenges faced by modern society across geographical, race, faith, gender and age boundaries. The author shared 19 stories aiming to tease the readers?mind with a variety of mind-boggling questions to think and ponder upon. The stories are to inspire the Life is an Open Secret readers to ultimately reflect and change should need be according to the guidelines from Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). These refreshing stories are inspirational, motivational, humorous and wittily crafted without losing any of its substance. 

Life is an Open Secret: Think About It - 18 Inspirational Stories from Ordinary Life Experiences

El desplazamiento entre la ciudad y el campo construye la dinámica de esta novela, una movilidad que transforma y amplifica los rasgos sensoriales en la voz de su protagonista: una joven estudiante de veterinaria, cuyo discurso a la vez indolente y desamparado enhebra una trama de sobrio desarrollo y exquisita resolución.

A partir del diagnóstico de un viejo caballo, en un campo cercano a la colonia psiquiátrica Open Door, la protagonista descubre un lugar de pertenencia, donde mitiga su falta de vínculos y la ausencia de su novia. Será el paisaje rural o pueblerino –pocas veces idealizado, siempre radicalmente concreto– el escenario donde el discurso interno que guía el relato sufrirá su evolución. El otro hemisferio será, entonces, la ciudad: el cada vez más lejano entramado urbano, ya sólo referencia tanática, a la que vuelve para toparse con una creciente vacuidad.

Opendoor crece, así, en un entorno argumental donde pasado y futuro ven velados sus contornos en favor de una actualidad marcada por el choque entre lo extraño y lo natural. Es ahí donde la prosa de Iosi Havilio encuentra su mejor tonalidad. Una escritura que puede maniobrar con destreza entre la mordacidad contenida y la ternura, el realismo y la abstracción, la precisión descriptiva y la solidez narrativa.

When her partner disappears, a young veterinary assistant drifts from the city towards Open Door, a small town in the Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. Embarking on a new life in the country, she finds herself living with an ageing ranch-hand and courted by an official investigating her partner’s disappearance. She might settle down, although a local girl is also irresistible . . .

This evocative, atmospheric book makes a quiet case for the possibility of finding contentment in unexpected places, with unexpected people.

Opendoor

In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip is appalling (deprivations and rapes prevail along the way), yet the real story commences once Ema arrives at the fort, where she takes on a succession of lovers among the soldiers and Indians, leading to a brave and grand entrepreneurial experiment. As is usual with Aira’s work, the wonder of the book is in the details of customs, beauty, and language, and the curious, perplexing reality of human nature.

Ema, the Captive

Patagonia is a strange and terrifying place, a vast tract of land shared by Argentina and Chile where the violent weather spawned over the southern Pacific charges through the Andes with gale-force winds, roaring clouds, and stinging snow. Squarely athwart the latitudes known to sailors as the "roaring forties" and "furious fifties", Patagonia is a land trapped between angry torrents of sea and sky, a place that has fascinated explorers and writers for centuries. Magellan discovered the strait that bears his name during the first circumnavigation. Charles Darwin traveled Patagonia's windy steppes and explored the fjords of Tierra del Fuego during the voyage of the Beagle. From the novel perspective of the cockpit, Antoine de Saint-Exupry immortalized the Andes in Wind, Sand, and Stars, and a half century later, Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia earned a permanent place among the great works of travel literature. Yet even today, the Patagonian Andes remain mysterious and remote, a place where horrible storms and ruthless landscapes discourage all but the most devoted pilgrims from paying tribute to the daunting and dangerous peaks. 

Gregory Crouch is one such pilgrim. In seven expeditions to this windswept edge of the Southern Hemisphere, he has braved weather, gravity, fear, and doubt to try himself in the alpine crucible of Patagonia. Crouch has had several notable successes, including the first winter ascent of the legendary Cerro Torre's West Face, to go along with his many spectacular failures. In language both stirring and lyrical, he evokes the perils of every handhold, perils that illustrate the crucial balance between physical danger and mental agility that allows for the most important part of any climb, which is not reaching the summit, but getting down alive. 

Crouch reveals the flip side of cutting-edge alpinism: the stunning variety of menial labor one must often perform to afford the next expedition. From building sewer systems during a bitter Colorado winter to washing the plastic balls in McDonalds' playgrounds, Crouch's dedication to the alpine craft has seen him through as many low moments as high summits. He recounts, too, the riotous celebrations of successful climbs, the numbing boredom of forced encampments, and the quiet pride that comes from knowing that one has performed well and bravely, even in failure. Included are more than two dozen color photographs that capture the many moods of this land, from the sublime beauty of the mountains at sunrise to the unrelenting fury of its storms.

Enduring Patagonia is a breathtaking odyssey through one of the worldís last wild places, a land that requires great sacrifice but offers great rewards to those who dare to challenge it.


"From the Hardcover edition."

Enduring Patagonia

Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago. Today, he discovers she was murdered. Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married? Why was she murdered? And, above all . . . Who murdered her? FEVER DREAM Revenge is not sweet: It is essential.

Fever Dream (Pendergast, #10)

"Imagining Argentina" is set in the dark days of the late 1970's, when thousands of Argentineans disappeared without a trace into the general's prison cells and torture chambers. When Carlos Ruweda's wife is suddenly taken from him, he discovers a magical gift: In waking dreams, he had clear visions of the fates of "the disappeared." But he cannot "imagine" what has happened to his own wife. Driven to near madness, his mind cannot be taken away: imagination, stories, and the mystical secrets of the human spirit.

Imagining Argentina

(* China. Pronounced ‘cheena’: designation for female, from the Quechua. Iron: The English word for Fierro, reference to the gaucho Martín Fierro, from José Hernández’s epic poem.) 

This is a riotous romp taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of Mrs China Iron, Martín Fierro’s abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon to become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their eyes are opened to the wonders of Argentina’s richly diverse flora and fauna, cultures and languages, as well as to its national struggles. After a clash with Colonel Hernández (the author who ‘stole’ Martín Fierro’s poems) and a drunken orgy with gauchos, they eventually find refuge and a peaceful future in a utopian indigenous community, the river- dwelling Iñchiñ people. 

Seen from an ox-drawn wagon, the narrative moves through the Argentinian landscape, charting the flora and fauna of the Pampas, Gaucho culture, Argentinian nation-building and British colonial projects. 

In a unique reformulation of history and literary tradition, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, with humour and sophistication, re-writes Martín Fierro from a feminist, LGBT, postcolonial point of view. She creates a hilarious novel that is nevertheless incisive in its criticism of the way societies come into being, and the way they venerate mythical heroes.

The Adventures of China Iron

From the award-winning author of "Brooklyn" and "The Master", a powerful, brave, and moving novel set in Argentina.

In Argentina, in the time of the Generals, the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from society. Stifled by his job, Richard is willing to take chances, both sexually and professionally. But Argentina is changing, and as his country edges toward peace, Richard tentatively begins a love affair. The result is a powerful, brave, and poignant novel of sex, death, and the diffculties of connecting one's inner life with the outside world.

The Story of the Night

Operacion Masacre fue una obra que marco el antes y el despues del periodismo de investigacion, mostrando las cualidades tecnicas de un gran periodista de estirpe como fue Rodolfo Walsh. Con tintes de novela policial nos interna en una epoca donde callar era una obligacion y los derechos individuales estaban solamente a la orden del poder de turno. Walsh pudo investigar en los turbulentos anos 50 que paso en la masacre de Jose Leon Suarez y como a partir de ese descubrimiento el periodismo dio un vuelco en estrategias y tecnicas, para lograr una investigacion tan exhaustiva y completa que revolucionaria la forma de investigar. De eso se trata este escrito, de desmenuzar esa metodologia de trabajo junto a la historia de Walsh y sus anos en el periodismo de investigacion, dentro de una epoca vertiginosa para esa profesion. La obra se complementa con resenas a otras obras del autor y entrevista a conocidos, que ayudan a entender aun mas su pensamiento. Rodolfo Walsh fue un revolucionario y un maestro para aquellos que le siguieron y aun hoy siguen su metodologia de trabajo.

Rodolfo Walsh y La Creacion del Libro Operacion Masacre

A witty sharply observed journey down the length of North and South America.

Beginning his journey in Boston, where he boarded the subway commuter train, and catching trains of all kinds on the way, Paul Theroux tells of his voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts and Illinois to the arid plateau of Argentina's most southerly tip. Sweating and shivering by turns as the temperature and altitude shoot up and down, thrown in with the appalling Mr Thornberry in Limón and reading nightly to the blind writer, Borges, in Buenos Aires, Theroux vividly evokes the contrasts of a journey 'to the end of the line'.

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

March 23, 1976. Berta watches as her lover, Atilio, a union organizer, is thrown from a window to his death on the sidewalk below. The next day, Colonel Jorge Rafael Videla stages a coup d’état and a military dictatorship takes control of Argentina. Though never a part of Atilio’s union efforts, Berta is on a list to be “disappeared” and flees to relatives in the countryside. There she becomes part of the family she knows only from old photographs: Aunt Avelina, who blasts records from an old player; Uncle Nepomuceno, who watches slugs slither in the garden every afternoon; and Uncle Javier, who sits in his tiny grocery store day and night. When Berta learns that government officials are still looking for her, she realizes she must run even further to save her life.

Gloria Lisé describes a terrifying period in her nation's history with a touch that is light yet penetrating. A powerful portrait of Argentinians caught up in traumas that have haunted the country ever since.

Departing at Dawn: A Novel of Argentina's Dirty War

New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With her old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport and her frivolous new friend Philippa Gordon at her side, Anne tucks her memories of rural Avonlea away and discovers life on her own terms, filled with surprises . . . including a marriage proposal from the worst fellow imaginable, the sale of her very first story, and a tragedy that teaches her a painful lesson. But tears turn to laughter when Anne and her friends move into an old cottage and an ornery black cat steals her heart. Little does Anne know that handsome Gilbert Blythe wants to win her heart, too. Suddenly Anne must decide whether she's ready for love.

Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

Assignment: Finding one of Argentina's 30,000 "Disappeared" ... likely outcome: Becoming one yourself.


The Argentine army's "Dirty War" disappeared 30,000 people, and the last thing Pepe Carvalho wants is to investigate one of the vanished, even if that missing person is his cousin. But blood proves thicker than a fine Mendoza Cabernet Sauvignon, even for a jaded gourmand like Pepe, and so at his family's request he leaves Barcelona for Buenos Aires.

What follows is perhaps Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's masterpiece: a combination white-knuckle investigation and moving psychological travelogue. Pepe quickly learns that "Buenos Aires is a beautiful city hell-bent on self-destruction," and finds himself on a trail involving boxers and scholars, military torturers and seductive semioticians, Borges fans and cold-blooded murderers.

And despite the wonders of the Tango and the country's divine cuisine, he also knows one thing: He'll have to confront the traumas of Argentina's past head on if he wants not only to find his cousin, but simply stay alive. 

The Buenos Aires Quintet

The slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police officers, prostitutes, transvestites, thieves, drug dealers, cumbia music and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed to be "a revelation for contemporary literature and pure dynamite" (Andrés Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century and Talking to Ourselves, Pushkin Press). 
 
Slum Virgin tells the larger-than-life story of Cleopatra, a transvestite who renounces prostitution after the Virgin Mary appears before her. Following the divine messages she receives, Cleo takes charge of the shantytown she lives in, transforming it into a tiny utopia. Ambitious journalist Quity knows she's found the story of the year when she hears about it, but her life is changed forever once she steps into the shantytown and finds herself irrevocably seduced by the captivating subject of her article. 
 
The densely-packed, fast-paced prose, which weaves together everyday speech, shantytown slang and classical references, pulls the reader into the story immediately. The author turns phrases with dexterity, refusing to whitewash the reality of the poor and downtrodden, and jumping deftly from tragedy to biting comedy in a way that has the reader laughing out loud. 
 
Slum Virgin was shortlisted for the Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize at the Gijón Detective Week (Spain) and chosen as book of the year by Rolling Stone magazine (Argentina) in 2009.

Slum Virgin

Savage Theories

Claire Danvers has her share of challenges---like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm, and above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with vampires. On the up side, she has a great roommate (who tends to disappear at sunup) and a new boyfriend named Shane, whose vampire-hunting dad has called in backup: cycle punks who like the idea of killing just about anything.

Now a fraternity is throwing its annual Dead Girls' Dance and---surprise!---Claire and her equally outcast best friend, Eve, have been invited. When they find out why, all hell is going to break loose. Because this time both the living and the dead are coming out---and everybody's hungry for blood.

The Dead Girls' Dance (The Morganville Vampires, #2)

Atmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind.

When Dr. Leo Liebenstein’s wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her—or almost exactly like her—and even audaciously claims to be her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo knows better than to trust his senses in matters of the heart. Certain that the original Rema is alive and in hiding, Leo embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love. 

With the help of his psychiatric patient Harvey—who believes himself to be a secret agent who can control the weather—Leo attempts to unravel the mystery of the spousal switch. His investigation leads him to the enigmatic guidance of the meteorologist Dr. Tzvi Gal-Chen, the secret workings of the Royal Academy of Meteorology in their cosmic conflict with the 49 Quantum Fathers, and the unwelcome conviction that somehow he—or maybe his wife, or maybe even Harvey—lies at the center of all these unfathomables. From the streets of New York to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, Leo’s erratic quest becomes a test of how far he is willing to take his struggle against the seemingly uncontestable truth he knows in his heart to be false. 

Atmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind. With tremendous compassion and dazzling literary sophistication, Rivka Galchen investigates the moment of crisis when you suddenly realize that the reality you insist upon is no longer one you can accept, and the person you love has become merely the person you live with. This highly inventive debut explores the mysterious nature of human relationships, and how we spend our lives trying to weather the storms of our own making.

Atmospheric Disturbances

"Adolfo Bioy Casares alcanza en esta novela, un rango literario tan difícil como inolvidable: el relato cuyo goce se perfecciona en cada relectura. Brillante parábola en clave sobre el amor y la identidad personal, "Dormir al sol" es uno de los libros fundamentales de la literatura argentina.

Dormir al sol 

César is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds a pirate’s treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man. Even so, César’s bid for world domination comes first and so he attends a literary conference to be near the man whose clone he hopes will lead an army to victory: the world-renowned Mexican author, Carlos Fuentes. A comic science fiction fantasy of the first order, "The Literary Conference" is the perfect vehicle for César Aira’s take over of literature in the 21st century.

The Literary Conference

En el crepúsculo de sus vidas, y en Río de Janeiro, dos hermanas evocan el pasado y departen acerca de los amores de una vecina más joven, que a través de ellas conocemos al trasluz o en filigrana. La indeclinable maestría de Puig para el diálogo coloquial y el mimetismo de los clisés expresivos de cada personaje se aúnan a su conocida y turbadora maestría para mostrar lo que hay de verdad humana profunda en el material con el que se construyen las novelas rosa. Aquí la visión última es a un tiempo más tierna y poética y más desolada que nunca: de lo que se nos habla es, a fin de cuentas, de la irredimible soledad del ser humano, encarado al decaimiento y la muerte, destino del que sólo momentáneamente le distraen los espejismos afectivos. Cae la noche tropical es una lectura conmovedora y apasionante y una muestra cabal y definitiva de la plenitud de recursos de uno de los principales narradores hispánicos.

Cae la noche tropical

Macedonio Fernández definió las condiciones para una poética de la novela en la Argentina y estableció en Museo de la novela de la Eterna las bases de una historia del género. Propone una relación directa con las grandes poéticas europeas del género y define ahí la especificidad de la tradición. No piensa en el referente ni en la localización sino en los usos (irreverentes) a que somete los procedimientos y las formas del género. Sencillamente inventa una historia nueva, funda el origen: escribe la primera novela buena y anula la tradición anterior. Con este acto que borra todo contexto se integra en la más típica de las tradiciones argentinas. Ricardo Piglia / Fragmento de "Conversaciones imposibles con Macedonio Fernández" 
 Acerca de Macedonio Fernández:  
Fue un escritor, abogado y filósofo argentino, autor de novelas, cuentos, poemas, artículos periodísticos, ensayos filosóficos y textos de naturaleza inclasificable. Ha ejercido una gran influencia sobre la literatura argentina posterior, especialmente en Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar y Ricardo Piglia. Es célebre por su novela "Museo de la Novela de la Eterna", publicada póstumamente en 1967. Murió el 10 de febrero de 1952 en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel)

With Love, The Argentina Family ~ Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes is a unique account, enlightening and inspirational with its autobiographical genuineness. The story unfolds in "die goldene medina" -America- sharing the insecurities and confusion of a young, immigrant girl. With a mother that never stops crying about The Argentina Family and a father who procures employment with an international airline, her life is divided in between her adopted country and her native land. 

Dramas and "simchas" (delights, joys) abound with a long distance, whirlwind relationship unfolding in the aftermath of Argentina's "Dirty War", including a frightening interrogation with the Argentine Police and an astonishing encounter at the American Consulate. 

Follow the sometimes comical, sometimes poignant trials and tribulations of a girl coming to terms with her Jewish heritage, her Argentine traditions and her fierce American patriotism.

With Love, The Argentina Family: Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes

"This is not simply a triumph of style; it is both a reflection on a time of bloodshed and a raw vision of human misery."—Guillermo Saccomanno, winner of the Argentine National Literature Prize

"This man knows. He knows about guns, knows about women, knows about dead bodies. . . . But above all he knows how to narrate."—Ana María Shua, author of "El peso de la tentación"

Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. Sent to investigate a double murder, he arrives at the crime scene to find three bodies. Two are clearly the work of the Junta's death squads, murders he is forced to ignore; the other one seems different.

The trail leads Lascano through a decadent Argentina, a country poisoned to its core by the tyranny of the regime. The third corpse turns out to be that of Biterman, moneylender and Auschwitz survivor. When Lascano digs too deep, he must confront Giribaldi, an army major, quick to help old friends but ruthless in dealing with dissenters such as Eva, the young militant with whom Lascano is falling in love.

Born in 1948, Ernesto Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a former anti-Junta militant who was pursued by the dictatorship. "Needle in a Hay Stack" is his first novel and the first in a trilogy with superintendent Lascano. The first two are being made into films.

Needle in a Haystack

Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years. During the Argentine junta's Dirty War against subversives, as tens of thousands were abducted, tortured, and disappeared, a group of women forged the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and changed Argentine politics forever. The Mothers began in the 1970s as an informal group of working-class housewives making the rounds of prisons and military barracks in search of their disappeared children. As they realized that both state and church officials were conspiring to withhold information, they started to protest, claiming the administrative center of Argentina the Plaza de Mayo for their center stage. In this volume, Marguerite G. Bouvard traces the history of the Mothers and examines how they have transformed maternity from a passive, domestic role to one of public strength. Bouvard also gives a detailed history of contemporary Argentina, including the military's debacle in the Falklands, the fall of the junta, and the efforts of subsequent governments to reach an accord with the Mothers. Finally, she examines their current agenda and their continuing struggle to bring the murderers of their children to justice.

Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

New York, 1923, the Argentine boxer, Luis Angel Firpo, called the wild bull of the Pampas, knocks out of the ring the American Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world. On the same night in Buenos Aires, Richard Strauss conducts a performance of Mahler's First Symphony at the Teatro Colón. Dempsey is out of the ring for seventeen seconds but is allowed by the US referee to get back in. During these seconds in a Buenos Aires hotel, a Viennese cellist is found hanging from a light fixture.

In the second round, Dempsey knocks Firpo out and retains his crown. Once again victory is stolen from the Argentinians by their more powerful neighbours and they are left to lick their wounds.

Seconds Out

Who said that Hitler did not die in the bunker in April 1945? Josef Stalin told President Harry Truman that Hitler did not. Marshall Zhukov said "We have found no corpse that could be Hitler's." This book not only tells of the escape of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and others of the Third Reich; it includes photographs, files from the FBI, CIA and OSS that show the US knew they escaped, interviews and much more. You will also read the reason that no government went after Hitler even though they knew where he was. This book will change the history you were taught in 5th grade.

Hitler in Argentina: The Documented Truth of Hitler's Escape from Berlin

Maxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone -- including two innocent teenage girls -- to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers, gunplay... no matter how serious the subject matter, and despite Aira's "fascination with urban violence and the sinister underside of Latin American politics" (The Millions), Shantytown, like all of Aira's mesmerizing work, is filled with wonder and mad invention.

Shantytown

A hypnotic novel in which an American student's quest to find the greatest living tango singer leads him deep into the labyrinth of Argentina's past. 
It is 2001, and inflation is spiraling out of control in Argentina as Bruno Cadogan, an American graduate student specializing in Borges, arrives in Buenos Aires. Cadogan is on the trail of Julio Martel, an elusive tango singer rumored to be even better than Carlos Gardel, the greatest singer of the 1920s and '30s. Martel has never recorded and his strange, powerful performances, at seemingly arbitrary sites around the city, are always unannounced.

Cadogan finds lodging in a boarding house rumored to be the setting of the famous Borges story "The Aleph," and soon finds himself drawn into the tangle of legends surrounding the singer's life. As the economic tension grows and the city hovers on the verge of riots, Bruno begins to believe that Martel's increasingly rare performances are in fact far from random—that they instead form a map of the darkest moments in the city's past.

Argentina

Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

Neil Gaiman

In Patagonia

Bruce Chatwin

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

Rick Riordan

The Honorary Consul

Graham Greene

The Ministry of Special Cases

Nathan Englander

How I Became a Nun

César Aira

Santa Evita

Tomás Eloy Martínez

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

César Aira

Respiración artificial

Ricardo Piglia

My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain

Patricio Pron

The Gaucho Martín Fierro (Martín Fierro, #1)

José Hernández

Adam Buenosayres: A Critical Edition

Leopoldo Marechal

Life is an Open Secret: Think About It - 18 Inspirational Stories from Ordinary Life Experiences

Zabrina A. Bakar

Opendoor

Iosi Havilio

Ema, the Captive

César Aira

Enduring Patagonia

Gregory Crouch

Fever Dream (Pendergast, #10)

Douglas Preston

Imagining Argentina

Lawrence Thornton

The Adventures of China Iron

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

The Story of the Night

Colm Tóibín

Rodolfo Walsh y La Creacion del Libro Operacion Masacre

Ver Nica Agnoli

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas

Paul Theroux

Departing at Dawn: A Novel of Argentina's Dirty War

Gloria Lisé

Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)

L.M. Montgomery

The Buenos Aires Quintet

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Slum Virgin

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Savage Theories

Pola Oloixarac

The Dead Girls' Dance (The Morganville Vampires, #2)

Rachel Caine

Atmospheric Disturbances

Rivka Galchen

Dormir al sol

Adolfo Bioy Casares

The Literary Conference

César Aira

Cae la noche tropical

Manuel Puig

The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel)

Macedonio Fernández

With Love, The Argentina Family: Memories of Tango and Kugel; Mate with Knishes

Mirta Ines Trupp

Needle in a Haystack

Ernesto Mallo

Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard

Seconds Out

Martín Kohan

Hitler in Argentina: The Documented Truth of Hitler's Escape from Berlin

Harry Cooper

Shantytown

César Aira

The Tango Singer