Rodrigo Rey Rosa

• 1991
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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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 ...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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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 Centra...

• May-2004
• / Psychological Suspense
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This muscular, starkly impressive novel from Guatemala's premiere young writer fiercely addresses the seemingly endless violence of Latin America. A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is kidnapped in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty un...

• Oct-2013
• / General Fiction
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In the vein of the writings of Paul Bowles, Paul Theroux, and V. S. Naipaul, The African Shore marks a major new installment in the genre of dystopic travel fiction. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, prominent in today’s Guatemalan literary world and an author of ...

• Feb-2014
• / General Fiction
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A new translation of the Guatemalan author whom Roberto Bolaño called “the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent…the most luminous of all.”

“Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although tha...

• Feb-2019
• / Literary
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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 arti...

• May-2019
• / General Fiction
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This prizewinning Guatemalan author’s meta-novel delves into the secret police records and history of political violence in his homeland.   In 2005, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa started visiting the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Po...

• Jul-2023
• / Thriller
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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 pla...