Trout Belly Up

Jared Lemus

A vibrant debut story collection--poignant, unflinching, and immersive--masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer do Ranging from a custodian at an underfunded college to a medicine man living in a temple dedicated to San ...

Halfon, Eduardo / Hahn, Daniel / Lisa Dillman

From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes a new installment in his hero's nomadic odyssey as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather's abductionIn Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fatefu...

Goldman, Francisco

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER "Painful, refractive, beautiful . . . Goldman is beloved."--New York Review of Books In Monkey Boy, Francisco Goldman's "brilliantly constructed auto-fiction" (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and...

Brown, Skila

Set in 1981 Guatemala, a lyrical debut novel tells the powerful tale of a boy who must decide what it means to be a man during a time of war. Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama tells him not yet — he's still her quiet moonfaced boy. The soldiers laugh at...

Halfon, Eduardo

Eduardo Halfon's first book, The Polish Boxer, was lauded by both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, featured on NPR, championed by booksellers from coast to coast, and named a finalist for the International Latino Book Award. With this book, Eduardo Halfon--a fluent English speaker--is poised to become an even bigger figure in American and international letters.Mona...

Halfon, Eduardo

"Eduardo Halfon's prose is delicate, precise, and as ineffable as precocious art—a lighthouse that illuminates everything." —FRANCISCO GOLDMAN, author of Say Her Name"These are the stories of life . . . the question of survival (of both people and cultures) and the way the fictional makes the real bearable and intelligible." —Publishers Weekly (boxed review)The Polish Boxer cov...

Fuentes, Rodrigo

Desde la primera página, un recorrido trepidante llevará a los lectores a moverse entre el presente de Guatemala y la década de los setenta; dos periodos hermanados por la esperanza, la violencia y la conmovedora historia de una misma familia. Mapa de otros mundos es una invitación a preguntarnos ¿cuál es la justicia que queremos en Guatemala, y qué estamos dispuestos a hacer p...

Fuentes, Rodrigo

Rodrigo Fuentes ha decidido volver allí donde los caminos dejan de ser de asfalto para convertirse de tierra. ¿Y qué encuentra el narrador? No encuentra lo que encontró Miguel Ángel Asturias, o Mario Monteforte Toledo, o Mario Payeras. Ese mundo ha sido desplazado por un territorio en disputa, a pesar de su devastación. Se lo disputan viejos terratenientes cuyos códigos han per...