The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tomás Eloy Martínez's last novel, Purgatory.
Martínez, who died in 2010, is woefully underappreciated (and under-translated) in the United States -- despite having taught at Rutgers for ages -- and it's great to see this available in English. (Interestingly, while the UK edition is a hardcover, in the US they only dared to go the paperback-original route (despite Bloomsbury publishing both here and there).)
Just how much we're missing is suggested by Martínez's mention of one of his earlier works, La mano del amo, in the novel (Martínez is a narrator-character in Purgatory):
Martínez, who died in 2010, is woefully underappreciated (and under-translated) in the United States -- despite having taught at Rutgers for ages -- and it's great to see this available in English. (Interestingly, while the UK edition is a hardcover, in the US they only dared to go the paperback-original route (despite Bloomsbury publishing both here and there).)
Just how much we're missing is suggested by Martínez's mention of one of his earlier works, La mano del amo, in the novel (Martínez is a narrator-character in Purgatory):
I wrote a novel twenty years ago in which cats were stealing my character's senses; by the time he died, he had none left. Now it feels like he's come back for revenge.How could you not want to read an author like this ?