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 ...

Miguel Angel Asturias

A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize-winning author of Mr. President's visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor TobarA Penguin ClassicDeep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous...

Miguel Angel Asturias / Unger, David

Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas LlosaIn an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and mainta...

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...

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...