A dilapidated bus, which thirty years earlier had probably been a luxurious long-distance vehicle with reclining seats, pulled up to the stand. A handwritten piece of paper taped to the inside of the windscreen said ‘Balcarce’. Iván hurried up the steps and stretched out on the back seat. He tu…
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Blue Sky Days
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Vladimir in Love
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The Transition
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Oliverio Coelho
Coelho is the author of the novels Tierra de vigilia (2000), Los invertebrables (2003), Borneo (2004), Promesas naturales (2006), Ida (2008) and Parte domestico (2009), and has been a resident writer in Mexico and South Korea. He has edited Ji-do (2009), an anthology of contemporary Korean narrative. He has received the Edmundo Valades Latin American Prize in Mexico and the National Initiation Prize in Argentina. He methodically squandered the prize money on trips through Latin America, Europe and Asia, where he began a diary that continues today in his house in Buenos Aires. Currently, he writes about the latest books for the magazine Inrockuptibles and on his blog www.conejillodeindias.blogspot.com. ‘After Effects’ is an excerpt from his forthcoming novel Un hombre llamado Lobo.
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Anne McLean has translated writings by, among others, Julio Cortázar, Tomás Eloy Martínez and Carmen Martín Gaite. Her translations of Soldiers and Salamis, The Speed of Light and The Tenant & The Motive by Javier Cercas are published by Bloomsbury.
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