Fiction
Summer 1980
Manuscript Found in a Pocket
From the Spanish. Now that I’m writing this, it might seem like roulette or the racetrack to others, but it wasn’t money I was looking for; at some moment […]
Fiction
Winter 1980
The Youngest Doll
From the Spanish. The old aunt had taken her rocking chair out onto the balcony overlooking the cane fields very early as she always did whenever she awoke with […]
Fiction
Winter 1980
Roos and the Cities
From the Portuguese. The rhythm of the life and the bells of Eltville (there Anneliese Roos is born and there her people live) reverberates in everything she does: in […]
Fiction
Summer 1979
Seven Serpents and Seven Moons: An Excerpt from the Novel
From the Spanish. One day, when the Santorontónians were facing the sea throwing their harpoons, a strange thing happened. Before Crisóstomo appeared on the beach there were no fish to […]
Fiction
Summer 1979
In Evil Hour: An Excerpt from the Novel
From the Spanish. Dr Giraldo was thinking, his chin daubed with lather, when a nauseating whiff drew him out of his memories. A flock of buzzards scattered on the opposite […]