Carlos Labbe

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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"Carlos Labbé's [Navidad & Matanza] begins to f**k with your head from its very first word -- moving through journalese, financial reporting, whodunit, Joseph Conrad, Raymond Chandler, Nabokov to David Lynch." -- Toby LittIt's the summer of 1999...

• Dec-2015
• / Thriller
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"[Labbé] wreaks havoc on narrative rules from the start and keeps doing it." -- BookforumLoquela, Carlos Labbé's fourth novel and second to be translated into English, is a narrative chameleon, a shape-shifting exploration of fiction's possibilitie...

• May-2019
• / Literary
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By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man -- the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band -- composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor. Alternating between the vocalist’s impressioni...

• Jan-2024
• / Literary
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Within the world of Labbé’s fiction, The Murmuration can be understood as a continuation and broadening, a shift toward a more explicit expression of the political project signaled in his early work and a doubling-down on the formal playfulness an...