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      • El menor (The Younger Brother)
        Fiction
        November 2020

        El menor (The Younger Brother)

        by Alicia Plante

        In her new novel, Alicia Plante confronts us again with atmospheres full of tension and expectations, along with a search for meaning, embodied in a brother who may hold the secret to our own identity. The writer -who seems to know the soul of each place she describes- plays with ever-changing and surprising backdrops, and now turns to a provincial town, which is a blend of charm and evil that seems to erupt in this “small town” scene. This offers a sharp contrast with the world of industry and finance, where the struggle for power and profit cannot hide its protagonists’ voracious greed, irrepressible passion, the danger of misplaced erotism, doubt, and loneliness.

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      • Cuentos completos (Full Stories)
        Fiction
        April 2019

        Cuentos completos (Full Stories)

        by Hebe Uhart

        Hebe Uhart (Moreno, Buenos Aires Province, 1936–Buenos Aires, 2018) spent a life-time in writing and publishing. She developed a body of work that embodies a way of looking, of being and of being in the world. Uhart’s is the kind of  writer that opens itself up to an awed wonder at the mysteries of the world, relationships, growth and decay, change. There is no solemnity or simplicity in her narratives, but a keen, penetrating intelligence, without sarcasm, never patronising and always bathed in understanding and kindness: a kind of primordial egalitarianism where anything, any being, becomes thought-provoking and is worthy of attention. Her ever-present humour is that of someone who deeply experiences a moment of discovery and moves on to the next. Hebe Uhart tells us what she sees and hears, and an important area of her work is bound up with her experience; with the biography of a girl descended from Italians and Basques and raised in Moreno, a small town in Buenos Aires Province; an unhappy teenager, a young teacher in a small-town school and a student of Philosophy in the capital, Buenos Aires. But her style of narrating experience is a long way from the ‘literature of self’ or ‘autofiction’ as practiced today. This painstaking exploration of her own history, her family and her closest bonds is also tied to her relationships with everyday objects and activities. Her narratives are also open to other areas of experience: jobs, social life, discussions on various subjects, friendships and couples, the plant and animal realms, domestic routines and travel.

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      • Enjambre (Swarm)
        Fiction
        March 2020

        Enjambre (Swarm)

        by Joaquín Areta

        The stories of Enjambre (Swarm), Joaquín Areta's first novel, take place in a torrid, dry Neuquén, province of Argentina. Carlos, a retired engineer, takes care of his old mother; a boy from the suburbs, Bairon, waits alone, by the road, for cyclists to pass; Iñigo, a young agricultural engineer marked by his relationship with his father, must solve an invasion of aggressive bees. These stories are composed by matters that, only in appearance, are trivialities: a line of ants that persists in accompanying Carlos' elderly mother; a rectangle of black dirt at the bottom of his garden; Bairon's secret collection of stones and arrowheads; the monument in his neighborhood that commemorates the clash between the conquerors and the original inhabitants; the threatening presence of the police; the small "treasures" left behind by someone gone, which bring us echoes of the military dictatorship; the spines of the alpataco trees in the memory of Iñigo; a glass of juice filled with ice-cubes; the nauseating smell of an ambulance ... A swarm of images that orbits around bonding: between characters, between past and present, between territory and inhabitants. These stories together give shape to a particular Universe, in which the silence, the things that are not said and those which are simply implied, make the atmosphere  more and more intriguing and unsettling until we’re also reached by its sting. Joaquín Areta’s writing enables a new way of showing and saying that will imply, as well, a different way of reading and perceiving. This novel becomes intense and moving, taking on the brightness of what we cannot stop contemplating.

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      • Síndrome Praga (Prague Syndrome)
        Fiction
        March 2019

        Síndrome Praga (Prague Syndrome)

        by Juan Pablo Bertazza

        An Argentine travels to Prague, as a way of putting some distance from his old way of life. Leaving behind his past, he arrives to this city to work as a tour guide. He believes that his new life in this old world of alchemical and transforming tradition will be surely better than the one he left behind. Enthusiastic with his brand new beginning in Prague, the protagonist of Síndrome Praga (Prague Syndrome) starts to dedicate himself to explaining a city that, however, he does not know. Soon enough, he discovers what he couldn’t have guessed:  that locals there don't want visitors; that his work was not what he thought; and that language dislocations are even more disorienting than he could have imagined, especially in relation to sentimental communication with the immediately unforgettable and fatal Katka. But none of this represents the truly particularity that this city is about to show him. Suddenly, there’s something else: four numbers begin to appear on the foreheads of some people randomly walking through the streets. And then, the revelation: those numbers show, with exactitude, the inevitable date of those people’s deaths. What to do then? Hard to say. First of all -he decides-, keeping a journal: turning to writing as a way of understanding the world around him as well as himself and his own place in this new city and reality.

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      • Alto en el cielo (High in the Sky)
        Fiction
        August 2021

        Alto en el cielo (High in the Sky)

        by Juan Pablo Bertazza

        Katka Fůrstová arrives in the Argentine capital in order to locate a great emblem of Prague culture that was trafficked, in the midst of the Nazi rise, by a group of initiates into Jewish mysticism. The mission, which takes her to one of the most central and secret corners of the city, mutates almost as much as her spirits as she absorbs the strange codes of Buenos Aires life. Revealing, poetic and fun, this lucid prequel to Síndrome Praga (Prague Syndrome) brings together the Barolo and the Palacio de Aguas Corrientes with neighborhood grills, gothic novels by Gustav Meyrink and the euphoria of popular music. With its unusual foreignness, Alto en el cielo (High in the Sky) achieves one of the goals of every novel: the power to resignify, both the plot of its previous novel, as well as the cultural ties with Central Europe, the condition of Buenos Aires as an inexhaustible literary metropolis made of irony and talent, always busy digesting so many years of cyclical repetitions such as those that, according to legend, mark the return of the Golem.

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      • Viaje al invierno (Journey to Winter)
        Fiction
        December 2018

        Viaje al invierno (Journey to Winter)

        by Claudia Solans

        Two destinies, that of an old woman and a young one, cross in the Argentine province of Tucumán in the middle of the Seventies. Helena, a Holocaust survivor, houses Clara, who escapes from an authoritarian father and the intolerable political reality that is lived in the Argentina of the moment. Both establish a relationship of complicity that is the engine of the story of two women crossed by violence. The memory, revived by these encounters, leads Helena to recover her devastating European past, her escape from Vienna and her first years in Argentina as a refugee in a small Tucumán town. Later, in the early eighties and with the Falklands War as background, Clara enquires into Helena's past and in her own past and present, shaken by revelations that mark a turning point in her life, the end of innocence.

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      • Cada despedida (Every Farewell)
        Fiction
        June 2010

        Cada despedida (Every Farewell)

        by Mariana Dimópulos

        The main character of Every Farewell is a 23 year old woman who feels herself very old and cannot stay anywhere. She always wants to arrive, even if it is unable to sleep in the same bed, to sit in the same chair, to live in the same room.In Buenos Aires she leaves her career, her family, her brothers and her father, who sentences: "You won´t be happy anywhere, even there ". Her trip started in Spain, from Madrid to Malaga, and continues in Germany (Heilbronn, Heidelberg and Berlin).She returns to Buenos Aires ten years later. When she is determined to close the last door, her father died. She decides to put down roots in the “Monk farm”, near El Bolson, next to a man, Marco. When it seemed she finally got some peace, Marco was killed. Everything seems to happen simultaneously in the present, as if the fragments of those routes were the best mechanism to investigate the murder of Marco, the only man she loved. Or at least she thought to love. Mariana Dimópulos is one of the most notable young writers in Argentina. Motherhood, relationship, friendship and the past are the themes of her novels, built with precise and dazzling writing.

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