Cristina Peri Rossi, Author, Cristina Peri Rossi, Author Picador USA $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14322-0
A gambling addict matches wits with an analyst seeking to cure him in the latest from Spanish novelist Rossi. (July)
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Cristina Peri Rossi, Author, Cristina Peri Rossi, Author, Cristina Peri Rossi, Author Duke University Press $18.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-8223-2540-6
The Uruguayan-born author of 20 novels (Dostoevsky's Last Night; A Forbidden Passion) offers a slim but intellectually rigorous meditation on the slippery, often illusory nature of love and the ways in which lovers alienate each other through words,
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Cristina Peri Rossi, Author, Christine Peri Rossi, Author, Psiche Hughes, Translator Readers International $14.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-930523-54-1
Moroccan human rights activist, poet and novelist Laabi makes a stunning English-language debut with this account of his unexpected release from prison (following an international campaign mounted by Amnesty International and the French branch of...
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Cristina Peri Rossi, Author, Tobias Hecht, Translator, Cristina Peri Rossi, Author University of Nebraska Press $45 (156p) ISBN 978-0-8032-3726-1
In Peri Rossi's world, life is a musty warehouse full of old phrases and clich s. Her absurdist sketches some only two pages long bring these phrases into the open and contort them into mad situations in which metaphor becomes reality. The title...
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Cristina Peri Rossi, Author, Christina P. Rossi, Author Picador USA $20 (180p) ISBN 978-0-312-13054-1
Compulsive gambling becomes an avenue to self-discovery in this witty tale of psychoanalysis and self-determination set in contemporary Barcelona. Jorge, erudite divorcee, raconteur and writer for a glitzy Spanish magazine, whiles away his excess...
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