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From one of Guatemala's finest young writers, these twenty-six stories--at once brutal and intensely lyrical--are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins.Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their action occurs, Rey Rosa's tales give the sense of being dreamed. At the same time they can be read as metaphors for the terror and oppression of years of warfare.Rodrigo Rey Rosa has based many of his writings and stories on legends and myths that are indigenous to Latin American as well as North Africa. A number of Rey Rosa's works have been translated into English, including; The Path Doubles Back (by Paul Bowles), Dust on her Tongue, "The Pelcari Project", The Beggar's Knife, The African Shore, and Severina. Along with his longer writings, he has also written a number of short stories that have been printed in college-level text books, such as "Worlds of Fiction, Second Edition" by Roberta Rubenstein and Charles R. Larson. A few of these short stories include The Proof, and The Good Cripple. Many of Rey Rosa's works have been translated into seven languages. In the early 1980s, Rey Rosa went to Morocco and became a literary protege of American expatriate writer Paul Bowles, who later translated several of Rey Rosa's works into English. When Bowles died in 1999, Rey Rosa became an executor of his literary estate.

Set in Guatemala, these spare and beautiful tales are linked by themes of magic, violence, and the fragility of existence. Paul Bowle's translation perfectly captures Rey Rosa's stories of the haunted lives of ordinary people in present-day Central America. "A genuinely surprising and original set of stories...a sense of violent unease shading into terror drifts up from every line...his writing has a sharp, almost sadistic edge." --The Times Literary Supplement "Compelling in the extreme...these twelve tales (that) boast of hidden dangers and lurking terrors, are written in a deceptively undramatic style, with masterful restraint. Stories that continue to disturb and delight long after they are laid to rest." --Blitz Twelve tales--many evoking the uncanny, most with surprise endings--explore how people seek to gain power from others. . . . Rey Rosa writes about danger and precarious stability in an effective, straightforward style." --Kirkus Reviews Rodrigo Rey Rosa (born November 4, 1958) is a Guatemalan writer. He has based many of his writings and stories on legends and myths that are indigenous to Latin American as well as North Africa. A number of Rey Rosa's works have been translated into English, including; The Path Doubles Back (by Paul Bowles), "The Pelcari Project," The Beggar's Knife, The African Shore, and Severina.

More than a decade ago, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa made his first visit to the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, scanned, and eventually published online. Bringing to light detailed evidence of crimes against humanity, the Archive Recovery Project inspired Rey Rosa to craft a meta-novel that weaves the language of arrest records and surveillance reports with the contemporary journal entries of a novelist (named Rodrigo) who is attempting to synthesize the stories of political activists, indigenous people, and other women and men who became ensnared in a deadly web of state-sponsored terrorism.When Rodrigo's access to the archive is suspended, he proceeds to the General Archives of Central America and the Library of Congress, also collaborating with the son of the Identification Bureau's former head in a relentless pursuit of understanding. Reminiscent of Roberto BolaÑo's finely honed masterworks, Human Matter is both a tour de force of fiction and a sobering meditation on the realities of collective memory, raising timely questions about how our history is recorded and retold.Originally published in Spanish in 2009, its success demanded a subsequent publication in June of 2017.

A Crime Reads Best International Crime Fiction of 2023 • One of Crime Reads most anticipated LatinX Horror and Crime Fiction of 2023This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet.Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector and gang enforcer, has never had the chance to discern between right and wrong, until he’s assigned the murder of Polo, a prominent human rights activist—and his friend. When his conscience gives him pause and his patrón catches on, a remote Mayan community offers the Cobra a potential refuge, but the people there are up against predatory mining companies. With danger encroaching, the Cobra is forced to confront his violent past and make a decision about what he’s willing to risk in the future, and who it will be for.Following the Cobra, Polo, a faction of drug-dealing oligarchs, and Jacobo, a child caught in the crosshairs, Rey Rosa maps an extensive web of corruption upheld by decades of political oppression. A scathing indictment of exploitation in all its forms, The Country of Toó is a gripping account of what it means to consider societal change under the constant threat of violence.

La ltima y enigm tica novela del Premio Nacional de Literatura de Guatemala Miguel ngel Asturias y del Premio Iberoamericano de las Letras Jos Donoso, entre otros. «Rey Rosa es un maestro consumado, el mejor de mi generaci n . Roberto Bola o «Hac a tanto tiempo que no se sent a tan triste. Una tristeza as , que parec a que proven a de m s all del inicio de la vida, era como el presentimiento del tiempo en que dejar a de existir . Un escritor despierta en un cuarto amplio con grandes ventanas que dan al mar, una habitaci n blanca y tranquila de la que no puede salir. Est en un hospital psiqui trico en Grecia y no recuerda nada, pero en su mesita de noche encuentra un manuscrito que explica c mo lleg hasta ah . Hab a pasado varios d as deambulando por Atenas, empe ado en traducir unos antiguos documentos protegidos por dos hermanos siniestros y conversando sobre la vida despu s de la muerte con un vagabundo vestido con t nica de fil sofo en pleno invierno. Cuando finalmente mejora, su psiquiatra decide mandarles a l y a un viejo conocido a investigar una religi n antiqu sima y perseguida que predica la migraci n de las almas. En ese mbito del mundo cabr a volver a creer en la vida eterna, pero el amor de la joven Ja n puede poner en riesgo hasta la mente m s cuerda. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The enigmatic new novel by the winner of Guatemala's Miguel ngel Asturias National Prize in Literature and the Jos Donoso Ibero-American Literature Award. "Rey Rosa is a consummate master, the best of my generation." - Roberto Bola o "He hadn't felt that sad in a long time. A sadness that seemed to stretch back to before the beginnings of life itself, like a presentiment of the time when it would no longer exist." A writer awakens in a spacious room with large windows giving onto the sea, a soothing white room that he cannot leave. As he soon discovers, he is in a psychiatric hospital in Greece. He remembers nothing, but in his night table he finds a manuscript explaining how he got there. He had been in Athens, trying to track down a set of old documents protected by a pair of sinister brothers and talking about death with a street person dressed in a philosopher's toga despite the winter weather. When at last the writer recovers, his psychiatrist tasks him and an old friend to research an ancient and persecuted religion that believes in the transmigration of souls. As he starts wondering about the possibility of eternal life, the love of a young woman named Ja n threatens to unbalance even the soundest mind.

A breathtaking novella about faith and anarchy by the acclaimed and prizewinning Latin American writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa. Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help fulfill the destiny of his son Abdelkrim. It could also unwittingly draw both men into irreversible events already in motion on distant shores. In America, Abdelkrim, a brilliant aspiring astronaut deemed “too Muslim” for citizenship, has teamed up with an equally gifted young prodigy, a witness to the plight of Syrian refugees. Together, the foreign students share a vision of altering the world’s geopolitical landscape to end human suffering with a nearly inconceivable blueprint. And they can turn theory to reality. They can bring about change. But only through a technological apocalypse can there be redemption—by unleashing total chaos. A provocative morality tale that moves with the visceral rhythms of a high-tech thriller, Chaos, A Fable is a spare and stunning triumph from one of the most celebrated Latin American authors of his generation.