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@mjfrancis.bsky.socialReposted by @charcopress.comBook 97: Marcelo Rubens Pavia's I'm Still Here (from @charcopress.com).
@charcopress.comEdgar Wilson cleans roadkill in rural Brazil until vultures lead him into a quest that becomes an exhortation about dignity for the forgotten and discarded. Ana Paula Maia's novel about two working men and a day that changes everything is out now. https://charcopress.com/bookstore/bury-your-dead
@radzpandit.bsky.socialReposted by @charcopress.comLatest @charcopress.com arrivals.
@charcopress.comA son remembers his father's death under Brazil's dictatorship and his mother's extraordinary journey from grief to becoming a champion for justice. Marcelo Rubens Paiva's I'M STILL HERE is out soon. https://charcopress.com/bookstore/im-still-here
@charcopress.comThe "extraordinary" I'M STILL HERE by Marcelo Rubens Paiva and translated by Alison Entrekin and Daniel Hahn is out soon!
@charcopress.comONE HUNDRED GUINEA PIGS by Gustavo Rodríguez, translated by Daniel Hahn, explores euthanasia through the profound friendship between a caregiver and an elderly woman facing her final days. Out now. https://charcopress.com/bookstore/one-hundred-guinea-pigs
@visualplague.bsky.socialReposted by @charcopress.comLooking forward to reading this great new collection @charcopress.com on one of the world's pivotal colonial archives
@charcopress.comShip manifests, letters home, colonial decrees: the General Archive of the Indies holds 80 million pages of empire. In Unveiling Stories, ten writers from Spain and Latin America write back. Out now in Charco Essays, with thanks to @hayfestival.bsky.social.
@charcopress.com"With her characteristic edge-of-the-seat storytelling, Piñeiro exposes not only the monsters we live among, but also the society that produces them."
@visualplague.bsky.socialReposted by @charcopress.comYet another brilliant book by Ana Paula Maia @charcopress.com - and a great read for those interested in more-than-human entanglements in contemporary literature
@charcopress.comOF CATTLE AND MEN: “In Perry’s translation, Maia reads like Cormac McCarthy with the labor consciousness of George Orwell.”
@charcopress.comWhat do you think of Ana Paula Maia's latest following her International @thebookerprizes.com shortlisting earlier this year?
@mattburris.bsky.socialReposted by @charcopress.comThis book is so good 🖤
@charcopress.comAPPARITIONS by Margo Glantz, translated by Ellen Jones, explores ecstasy and desire transmuted into devotion—two nuns and an obsessed mother pursuing communion through pain, pleasure, and the body as a path to the divine. Out now. https://charcopress.com/bookstore/apparitions
@charcopress.comI'M STILL HERE by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, translated by Alison Entrekin and Daniel Hahn, is a luminous memoir of a son's coming of age amid Brazil's dictatorship, and his mother's extraordinary fight for justice. Available to pre-order. https://charcopress.com/bookstore/im-still-here
@duckpondsreview.bsky.socialReposted by @charcopress.com2022 #39
I've been neglecting this thread lately but back on it today. This is one of the best I've read from @charcopress.com , an ailing mother seeks to find out what happened to her daughter who was found dead in her former church. Engrossing and definitely ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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@charcopress.comBURY YOUR DEAD. New work from International Booked shortlisted author Ana Paula Maia. Out now!
@charcopress.comBury Your Dead by International Booker Prize shortlister Ana Paula Maia, translated by Padma Viswanathan, is out in the UK today, closely followed by the US in early September.
A roadkill crew in rural Brazil finds the wrong kind of body: charcopress.com/bookstore/bu...
charcopress.comBury Your Dead (Preorder) — Charco PressAna Paula Maia Translated by Padma Viswanathan A roadkill crew in rural Brazil finds the wrong kind of body.
Edgar Wilson has left behind his job as a stunner at the slaughterhouse. He n...
@charcopress.comThroughout Women in Translation Month, we'll be celebrating the brilliant translators behind Charco Press books, sharing their thoughts on translation, the books they love and why bringing stories across languages matters. Our series begins with Alison, co-translator of I'm Still Here.