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Award-winning publisher of outstanding Latin American literature. Edinburgh.
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It's here. Our 2026 Bundle. Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
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AN INFINITE SADNESS in The Irish Times: "a novel of remarkable truth and tenderness that explores the fragile border between sanity and despair with consummate clarity"
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Translated fiction: Explorations of trauma, loss, exile and memory
An Infinite Sadness by Antônio Xerxenesky’s; False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez; Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ivana Sajko; and Not There by Mariusz Szczygieł
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2025/12/07/translated-fiction-explorations-of-trauma-loss-exile-and-memory/
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LAST ORDERS for our US friends - our elves (and UPS) can only work so much magic, so order TODAY if you want some Charco goodies in time for Christmas!
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Running out of time for our Xmas bundles! Our non-fiction bundle: anthology on Latin American Feminism, La Lucha, translation theory made fun by the brilliant Daniel Hahn, and a revolutionary reflection on the politics of Indigenous languages by Yásnaya Elena A. Gil.
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We have options for the lit lover in you life this Xmas! Award-winning books, curated bundles (optionally hand-wrapped in beautiful gift paper) and our new fine art prints of some of our favourite covers. Check it out!
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20 days ago
Book 87: Antônio Xerxenesky's An Infinite Sadness (from
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A novel by the grandson of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salvador Elizondo with a first line which echoes Juan Rulfo? Impossible to resist! Mateo Garcia Elizondo's Last Date in El Zapotal, translated by Robin Myers and published by
@charcopress.com
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Last Date in El Zapotal
“I came to El Zapotal to die once and for all,” begins Mateo Garcia Elizondo’s Last Date in El Zapotal, now translated into English by Robin Myers, echoing the opening of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo …
https://1streading.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/last-date-in-el-zapotal/
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There's still time to get one of our Xmas bundles! How about our bestsellers?
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The Charco elves are still busy busy! Remember you have the option to have any Bundles hand-wrapped in beautiful Libraries and Archives Paper Co paper and ribbon. And check out our new, beautiful fine art prints!
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Congratulations to Jennifer Lawrence that her incredible performance in DIE MY LOVE has been recognised with a Best Actress nomination at the Golden Globes! So well deserved. We will be keeping fingers crossed!
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Check out this beautiful print of one of our best selling titles, Elena Knows. Recreated by our resident designer, Pablo Font, and printed using the highest quality papers and inks, providing an archival life of 80 years. Check out the full range!
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. BURY YOUR DEAD by Ana Paula Maia (tr. Padma Viswanathan). More Maia! A brutal, stark, and haunting novella about a roadkill worker who finds the wrong kind of corpse. Subscribe now:
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Southwest Review
24 days ago
“Hailed as South America’s answer to Cormac McCarthy,” Ana Paula Maia is back w/ a new novel ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH (trans Padma Viswanathan) ✨ Read
@bopgoth.bsky.social
’s review below & grab it now via
@charcopress.com
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At the Edge of the Known | Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath
By Adrian Van Young
https://southwestreview.com/at-the-edge-of-the-known/
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Here, you will get some of our best recent fiction titles including new works by some of Charco’s favourites, Ana Paula Maia, Daniel Saldaña París and Renato Cisneros, plus works by two fantastic authors, new to the Charco family: Daniela Catrileo and Lucía Lijtmaer.
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. ONE HUNDRED GUINEA PIGS by Gustavo Rodríguez (tr. Daniel Hahn). A tender novel about killing your friends. Winner of the 2023 Alfaguara Prize. Subscribe now:
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For those who like longer novels, here we have a selection of our longer works, from an introspection-causing accident in the Himalayas, to the most recent novel by Elena Knows author Claudia Piñeiro, and a great all-time classic of Colombian literature.
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. ANIMAL SPIRAL by Luis Othoniel Rosa (tr. Katie Marya). Our first Puerto Rican author, Rosa's dystopian work narrates a tale about a world that is both desirable and terrifying over the next 377 years. (Y también en castellano!) Subscribe now:
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Exciting news! A selection of our iconic Charco covers are now available as fine art prints! Reimagined by artist Pablo Font as striking works of art, and printed using highest quality papers and inks, giving an archival life of 80 years. Check out the full range:
charcopress.com/artstore
29 days ago
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LATE = GREAT? We are pleased to announce a selection of gift ideas for the reader in your life, including curated Xmas bundles. You can even opt to have your parcel wrapped by our Charco elves! Dive in now!
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It's here. Our 2026 Bundle. Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
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AN INFINITE SADNESS and LEXICON OF AFFINITIES are recommended reads here!
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Ways of Understanding | IT
https://internationaltimes.it/ways-of-understanding/
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Proud to see TIME OF THE FLIES nominated here!
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What an honour to be part of the 5th anniversary of Romancero Books’ Festival of Queer Spanish Culture, and have Sara Torres, author of upcoming X IS WHERE I AM, speaking at the Embassy of Spain.
#FCQEL25
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"A mesmerising novel of triangles: romantic, political, and environmental, where tensions pull at different angles and gradients." Leo Boix reviews THE DANCE AND THE FIRE by Daniel Saldaña París (tr. Christina MacSweeney) for the Morningstar
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Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: November 18, 2025
IN Daniel Saldana Paris’s The Dance and the Fire (Charco Press, £11.99), a series of wildfires threatens to engulf the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico — a place already doomed by dust, toxic fumes, and a m...
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/letters-latin-america-leo-boix-november-18-2025
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'Charco’s in-house designer, Pablo Font, continues the transatlantic relationship from his base in Argentina. “Designing our covers is a long process,” Orloff tells Monocle. “He’s an essential part of our team.”'
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Three independent publishers getting book design just right - Monocle
These bookmakers have caught our eye with their distinctive designs and unique offerings hidden between covers.
https://monocle.com/culture/charco-press-wetlands-poursuite-editions/
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go... Subscribe now:
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. PIÑEN by Daniela Catrileo (tr. Jacob Edelstein). A fierce, tender collection of stories about the lives, traumas, and dreams of Mapuche youth in modern-day Chile. Subscribe now:
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. X IS WHERE I AM by acclaimed Spanish poet Sara Torres (tr. Maureen Shaughnessy). A searching, buoyant novel about queer love, mothers and daughters. Bold. Lyrical. Unforgettable. Subscribe now:
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. APPARITIONS by legendary Mexican author Margo Glantz (tr. Ellen Jones). Breaking taboos, this novel shocked the literary scene in the 90s. It will again in English. Subscribe now:
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Really looking forward to this!
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle). New work from the author of Elena Knows! Lia fled her home after a brutal crime decades ago, but family, and the truth, will never let you go... Subscribe now:
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. PIÑEN by Daniela Catrileo (tr. Jacob Edelstein). A fierce, tender collection of stories about the lives, traumas, and dreams of Mapuche youth in modern-day Chile. Subscribe now:
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. X IS WHERE I AM by acclaimed Spanish poet Sara Torres (tr. Maureen Shaughnessy). A searching, buoyant novel about queer love, mothers and daughters. Bold. Lyrical. Unforgettable. Subscribe now:
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
about 1 month ago
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We were delighted to join
@jack-edwards.bsky.social
for his Inklings Book Club podcast all about DIE, MY LOVE and its film adaptation, translated by Sarah Moses and our own Carolina Orloff. Hear our thoughts along with Jennifer Lawrence and Lynne Ramsay!
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Jennifer Lawrence: Die My Love by Ariana Harwicz
Spotify video
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XD8I8Es3GdWLQU5uKeT7O?si=0w4rTLWVRCSJOJFUAef_Dw
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Elephant Mastodon
about 1 month ago
Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men still lives in my brains. Can't wait to read her new one.
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Elie
about 1 month ago
I slipped and ordered the 2026 *and* 2025 bundles plus a couple of extras. My poor TBR. Can't wait for the new Claudia Piñeiro in particular!
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Andy Helliwell
about 1 month ago
A Charco Press subscription was definitely the best thing I did to treat myself this year. Consistently excellent contemporary Latin American literature arriving at random intervals through the year - a joy, and I have already signed up again!
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The 2026 Charco Press books are here! Including a new Claudia Piñeiro!
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Our 2026 Bundle lineup. APPARITIONS by legendary Mexican author Margo Glantz (tr. Ellen Jones). Breaking taboos, this novel shocked the literary scene in the 90s. It will again in English. Subscribe now:
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
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It's here. Our 2026 Bundle. Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
charcopress.com/bookstore/20...
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"The six stories are united by an understanding of displacement and trauma’s stubborn grip. Her characters are estranged in different ways: some are literal exiles, others are marked by violence or psychological rupture. All bear wounds that demand reckoning."
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Terror in the quotidian
The six stories in the Bolivian author Giovanna Rivero’s Fresh Dirt from the Grave are united by an understanding of displacement and trauma’s stubborn
https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/in-brief/fresh-dirt-from-the-grave-giovanna-rivero-book-review-ines-arteta
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Land and Climate Review
about 2 months ago
"The courts remain designed for the persecution of Indigenous peoples and those who defend their rights.” Read an edited excerpt from "La Lucha," where Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres recounts her mother's fight to protect a sacred river and her tragic assassination. @charcopress.com
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From Argentina to Edinburgh to Hollywood. The movie adaptation of our own DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz (tr. Sarah Moses/Carolina Orloff) is out in UK/US cinemas tomorrow!
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OUT TODAY! Three friends forever bound by erotic flames of the past reunite in a city engulfed by wildfires and an ecstatic dancing plague. THE DANCE AND THE FIRE by Daniel Saldaña París (tr. Christina MacSweeney).
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about 2 months ago
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Last chance to stock up for your winter reading! Our Autumn Sale ends tonight. 30% off all print and ebook titles. Get ‘em while they’re hot!
charcopress.com
about 2 months ago
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Time…running…out…⏰
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Great profile over at
@newyorker.com
on Jennifer Lawrence and DIE MY LOVE.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Jennifer Lawrence Goes Dark
She has been cast in maternal roles since her teens. Now, playing a mother for the first time since becoming one, she has chosen the part of a woman pushed past the edge of sanity.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/jennifer-lawrence-profile
about 2 months ago
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We're having an Autumn Sale! 30% off ALL print and ebook editions*, until midnight Friday 31st October (GMT). A great chance to stack up that TBR pile, or introduce friends and family to Charco!
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(*Excludes preorder titles, bundles and tote bags.)
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Out today - this beautiful, thoughtful journey into the effects of guilt and trauma on the human psyche, set in post WW2 Switzerland. Haunting prose by Antônio Xerxenesky, in a superb translation by Daniel Hahn. Available now direct from us:
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DIE, MY LOVE in cinemas in just a couple of weeks!
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DIE MY LOVE | Official Clip | In Theaters November | With Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson
YouTube video by MUBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQPO9iBaWs
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Caroline Casey
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terrific reviews of LA LUCHA (
@charcopress.com
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@invisibooks.bsky.social
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What’s New in Translation: October 2025 - Asymptote Blog
New titles from Haiti, Argentina, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Italy, Norway, Turkey, Mexico, Taiwan, Hungary, South Korea, and Latin America!
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10/13/37858/#more-37858
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