Peter Bush is a celebrated translator whose work demonstrates a profound understanding of Spanish literature and a sensitive approach to rendering literary works into English. His translations capture the spirit of the original while breathing new life into both classic and contemporary texts for a fresh audience. Bush focuses on works that offer a unique window into Spanish culture and history, and his dedication to the craft ensures these vital literary voices resonate widely.
Now available in paperback, the editors of this book are internationally known in the field of literary translation and translation studies - particularly as promoters of the view that translation as a creative practice rather than a mechanical process.
A young transvestite is found strangled in a Havana park. Mario Conde's first investigation into a young man's violent murder exposes the equally disturbing death of his beloved Cuba.
To many, Juan Goytisolo is Spain's greatest living novelist and her sternest critic. An exile from his native land for over forty years (he left Madrid in 1957 to escape Franco's regime), he has mercilessly sought to overturn Spain's Catholic homogeneity by remembering the cultural influence of her medieval and Jewish populations. Few European writers know the Islamic shores of the Mediterranean as intimately as he does. In these essays about Morocco, Turkey, and Egypt, Goytisolo celebrates a world where ritual matters and tradition is alive, where saints live, story-tellers weave their enchantments nightly, and where honor and dignity preserve the importance of the individual. Goytisolo is to Spanish writing what Almodovar is to Spanish cinema. These essays are a fine reading of the vast, heterogeneous mosaic of Islam against the everyday truculent images of the mass media. "A deliciously pretentious aesthete, Goytisolo unashamedly romanticizes popular Islamic life in beguiling, immensely readable, poetic prose."-Publishers Weekly
Following the footsteps of a writer persecuted because of his ideas and tortured by his own frustrations, a young Catalan woman embarks on an adventure in the jungles of Colombia where her familiar world shatters and from which nothing emerges unharmed. Confronted by solitude in a region where it rains incessantly, she discovers, first in her lover, then in the people around her, the alarming signs of a devastating war. In a narrative that swings between intimacy and horror, she bears witness to a hell in which she abandons everything except the language she has had to reinvent, as her only refuge, to speak about the thousand new faces death has shown her. " . . . the Barcelona-based Catalan author brings an alien sensibility and lush, invented language to Queen Cocaine , set in Colombia's war-ravaged countryside. . . . Amat's book is a paranoid fever dream of a peasant novel—heir to those of Rulfo and Fanon, but also Lispector—filtered through the gaze of her doomed outsider."— The Village Voice "Amat deftly conjures the funereal landscape of Colombia's Pacific coast—an indifferent sea; intemperate rains; a jungle carpeted with snakes and punctuated by swamps . . . a traumatic forced evacuation of the village near the end adds gravitas to the book, which is an acute, grimly poetic account of a South American heart of darkness."— Publishers Weekly “A happy combination of intelligence and critical insight.”—Juan Goytisolo, Times Literary Supplement " In all, a revelatory tale that reads like the testimony of a shell-shocked survivor."— Kirkus Reviews "[An] apocalyptic novel by Spanish writer Amat . . . A brilliant portrayal of the horrors of drug cultivation; recommended for all general collections, especially where there is an interest in Latin American culture."— Library Journal Nuria Amat was born in Barcelona, where she now lives.
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