At the age of fifty-three, married Canadian engineer Carlton Smythe meets a mysterious woman in a Buenos Aires bar, and falls head over heels in love for the first time in his life. Desperate to find the funds to escape his loveless marriage to Cynthia and embark on a new life in Argentina with the beautiful Gina Ellanado, Smythe devises an audacious money-making scheme, brilliant in its simplicity and boldness. But to pull it off, he will need to...

"En el invierno de 1976 Simón Cardoso es detenido por los militares que impusieron una dictadura sangrienta en la Argentina, y nunca más aparece. Treinta años más tarde, su mujer, Emilia Dupuy, se paraliza al oir su voz en una fonda de suburbio en New Jersey. El mundo, que se había desmoronado con la tragedia, recobra su luz. Excepto por un detalle: Simón sigue fijo en la juventud. El tiempo no ha transcurrido para él. A partir de ese enigma,...

En el patio del liceo, los niños se alinean uno detrás del otro, toman distancia con el brazo para marcar el espacio justo entre cada uno, una fila al lado de la otra, formando un cuadrado perfecto, una especie de tablero, como piezas de un juego, pero nadie sabe cuál. Nona Fernández construye un texto coral, onírico y poético para narrar la infancia de unos compañeros de liceo en plena dictadura de Piochet. Entre sueños y recuerdos las voces...

Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be a great, world-changing screenplay. Every night, after finishing work on the script, Pablo writes in his notebook and every morning he crosses out what he wrote the night before.

"En medio de un Madrid asolado por el virus, el detective Ulises Lombardi recibe el encargo de encontrar a un anciano centenario que ha desaparecido. El anciano posee una clave secreta que conecta con el pasado de Lombardi, guerrillero en la Argentina de su juventud, que marchó al exilio tras conocer la tortura y el horror. Se inicia así una carrera contrarreloj que el detective lleva a cabo junto a Sara, joven pelirroja, osada y absolutamente libre....

"This is Claudia Piñeiro's powerful new book of short stories. A set of stories that, like short every-day scenes, deal with situations that we can all relate to. Some are quirks and oddities that go unnoticed, small obsessions that make their way into daily routines; others can lead to crimes, but are usually resting latent within people's souls. A selfish man performs an act of generosity, a dead person speaks through his belongings, a recluse...

"Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz-nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina's...

En Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan tiene una doble vida. En casa es una hija atenta y en la cancha es la imparable Furia. Cuando su equipo califica para el torneo Sudamericano, sabrá cuán lejos puede llegar. El camino es difícil. Camila deberá enfrentarse a un mundo que no está preparado para chicas como ella, pero La Furia no puede ser negada. Rosario, Argentina. At home Camila Hassan lives within her mother's narrow expectations, her soccer-star...

"Written with the riveting storytelling and moral seriousness of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together. When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful buildings, the street food,...