Carmen Boullosa

"Russia, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: in the almost-living portrait the Tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts she wrote just before her death, one of which opens a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairytale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapón, the charismatic leader of the proletariat,...

This novel takes place in a future society called Atlantis, whose government wants to wipe out all human history from the memory of the "survivors of the future". The use of language is illegal. Lear, a paleographer, clandestinely investigates a document that will transport her to colonial Mexico. Esta propuesta literaria recoge tres manuscritos en un texto: la crónica escrita por Hernando de Rivas en el siglo XVI, donde narra en latín la verdadera...

"Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love"-- This collection of 28 short stories, first published in 1937 and now in English translation for the first time, introduced readers to one of Argentina's most original and iconic authors. With this, her fiction debut, poet Silvina Ocampo initiated a personal, idiosyncratic exploration of the politics of...