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From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known.

The English writer Aliza Abravanel races to finish her final novel before her mind deteriorates. The last living speaker of a language is confronted with the disappearance of his culture. Through the construction of an esoteric theater of memory, a survivor of the Guatemalan genocide seeks to recover the memories buried in the trauma of war. Seeking the connecting thread between these three stories of loss is Julio, a disillusioned professor of literature who receives a posthumous summons from his old friend Aliza that will send him hurtling into a painful episode from his past.

A novel of compassion and of return--to one's native country, to one's darkest memories, to oneself--Austral maps a journey from war-ravaged Guatemala to the high Peruvian Amazon, passing through Nueva Germania, the antisemitic commune founded in Paraguay by Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. A treasure box of intertwined stories, it is a fascinating investigation into the pain of loss, the disappearance of language and memory, and the dangers of globalization. With this dazzling exploration of the traces we leave behind, those we erase, and those we seek to rebuild, Carlos Fonseca confirms his status as one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Latin American literature.

Includes black-and-white illustrations


About the Author:

Carlos Fonseca was born in San José, Costa Rica, and spent half of his childhood and adolescence in Puerto Rico. In 2016, he was named one of the twenty best Latin American writers born in the 1980s at the Guadalajara Book Fair; in 2017 he was included in the Bogotá39 list of the best Latin American writers under forty; and in 2021, he was named one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. He teaches at Trinity College, Cambridge, and lives in London.

Megan McDowell's translations have won the English PEN Translation award and the Premio Valle Inclán; have been nominated four times for the International Booker Prize; and have been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta, among other publications. In 2020 she won the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is from Richmond, Kentucky, and lives in Santiago, Chile.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780374606657
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
  • Publisher Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 137 mm
  • ISBN-10: 037460665X
  • Publisher Date: 23 May 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 367 gr

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