Charco Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Publishers of award-winning literature from contemporary Latin American authors.
Can't and Won't: Stories
Lydia DavisCharco PressHappy 🇺🇸 pub day to this beauty! Short stories of subtle menace and Lydia Davis-esque humor. SOUTHERLY by Jorge Consiglio (tr. Cherilyn Elston and Carolina Orloff). (For 🇬🇧 readers - this is a NEW EXTENDED edition, with TWO new stories!) https://t.co/Apdij2XCGR https://t.co/ahBU78Gt2J
Paperback, 2015
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dead Girls
Selva AlmadaCharco PressToday, along with around 600 other titles, we proudly publish DEAD GIRLS by Selva Almada, translated by @annielmcd. We hope you will read it and agree with us that this is a tremendous example of literature's power to give voice to the voiceless. https://charcopress.com/bookstore/dead-girls https://t.co/lqBJ8hMxlF
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Never Did the Fire
Diamela EltitCharco PressVery proud to see Diamela Eltit’s “Never Did the Fire” (translated by @danielhahn02 ) long listed for this wonderful prize. Amidst fabulous company! @OxfordCCT https://t.co/JLQVaXxq1P
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The President's Room
Ricardo RomeroCharco PressWonderful vlog here touching on some superb short books. Thanks @jenvcampbell for including THE PRESIDENT’S ROOM by Ricardo Romero (tr. @CMCTranslations ). So pleased you enjoyed it! https://t.co/4mPCqM3fQo
Paperback, 2020
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Brickmakers
Selva AlmadaCharco PressA wonderful lineup, as always, for this year's @Soc_of_Authors Translation Prize. And we are very proud to have the incredible BRICKMAKERS by Selva Almada (tr. @annielmcd) shortlisted for the Premio Valle Inclán!! Congratulations to all the shortlistees! https://t.co/9M5ZSa5ozp
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali ShreeCharco PressSuch an honor to be at the #2022InternationalBooker dinner last night, celebrating the best in international fiction. Huge congratulations to Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell for winning with Tomb of Sand. And our stablemates @TiltedAxisPress. We are so proud of you all. (1/4)
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Southerly
Jorge ConsiglioCharco PressHappy 🇺🇸 pub day to this beauty! Short stories of subtle menace and Lydia Davis-esque humor. SOUTHERLY by Jorge Consiglio (tr. Cherilyn Elston and Carolina Orloff). (For 🇬🇧 readers - this is a NEW EXTENDED edition, with TWO new stories!) https://t.co/Apdij2XCGR https://t.co/ahBU78Gt2J
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Of Cattle and Men
Ana Paula MaiaCharco Press“Maia writes with rare and arresting directness. Nothing is wasted: each chapter is a carcass picked clean.” Many thanks to Tom for this wonderful review of OF CATTLE AND MEN by Ana Paula Maia (tr. @ZAPTranslations). (And for the kind words in his tweet!) https://t.co/HjYtiJTs2U
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Elena Knows
Claudia PiñeiroCharco Press“I was almost able to comprehend—even just for a moment—the incredible multitude of perspectives that exist in this world at once. And isn’t that the point of fiction, after all?” ELENA KNOWS in @TheAtlantic’s 20 recommended summer reads. @claudiapineiro https://t.co/eXx28choh7
Paperback, 2021
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Here Be Icebergs
Katya AdauiCharco Press"Brief, incendiary tales, flaring into being." Wonderful review of HERE BE ICEBERGS by @kadaui (tr. @Rosenkrantz) over at @IrishTimesCultr (ÂŁ). Many thanks to the always-astute @KatyaTaylor, and for including it in her fabulous #witmonth roundup. https://t.co/ZIki1UGtDn
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book