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Our fourth anthology celebrates the transportive joy of entering a vividly imagined world. Celebrated Spanish author Javier Marias spins a tale of a mild-mannered teacher turned ghost-hunter. Mexican writer Roberto Ransom (translated here into English for the first time) introduces us to a master fresco painter and the conservationist who tries to recapture his magic hundreds of years later, with mystifying results. Pulitzer Prize-nominee Joy Williams pens a fable about Baba Iaga and her pelican child, kept safe in a hut on chicken legs, until a mysterious historical figure asks to paint her portrait. Ben Stroud tells the harrowing story of a destitute cripple sent by his emperor to destroy a holy man and preserve the kingdom, and Patrick deWitt chronicles the deviant adventures of a man known only as the Bastard.
Our fourth anthology celebrates the transportive joy of entering a vividly imagined world. Celebrated Spanish author Javier Marias spins a tale of a mild-mannered teacher turned ghost-hunter. Mexican writer Roberto Ransom (translated here into English for the first time) introduces us to a master...
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Admired by Bolaño, Ashbery, Sebald, and Coetzee, JAVIER MARÍAS, born in Madrid in 1951, is widely considered Spain’s greatest living writer. He has been translated into thirty-seven languages and acclaimed here as “a rare gift” (The New York Times Book Review), “superb” (Review of Contemporary Fiction), “fantastically original” (Talk), “brilliant” (Virginia Quarterly Review), and “a true genius of literary subterfuge” (The Village Voice). New Directions has published nine of his books; forthcoming are the story collection, While the Women Are Sleeping, and the novella Bad Nature, or, With Elvis in Mexico.
Admired by Bolaño, Ashbery, Sebald, and Coetzee, JAVIER MARÍAS, born in Madrid in 1951, is widely considered Spain’s greatest living writer. He has been translated into thirty-seven languages and acclaimed here as “a rare gift” (The New York Times Book Review), “superb” (Review of Contemporary Fi...
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