A new translation of the Guatemalan author whom Roberto Bola�o called "the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent . . . the most luminous of all" "Severina is impeccably written. . . . Read this great novel."-Luis Alonso Girgado, El Ideal Gallego "Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything. . . . I knew she'd be back," the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is ...
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A new translation of the Guatemalan author whom Roberto Bola�o called "the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent . . . the most luminous of all" "Severina is impeccably written. . . . Read this great novel."-Luis Alonso Girgado, El Ideal Gallego "Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything. . . . I knew she'd be back," the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine the mesmerized bookseller secretly tracking the volumes she steals, hoping for insight into her character, her motives, her love life. In Rodrigo Rey Rosa's hands, this tale of obsessive love is told with breathless precision. The bookstore owner is soon entangled in Severina's mystery: seductive and peripatetic, of uncertain nationality, she steals books to actually read them and to share with her purported grandfather, Se�or Blanco. In this unsettling exploration of the alienating and simultaneously liberating power of love, the bookseller's monotonous existence is rocked by the enigmatic Severina. As in a dream, the disoriented man finds that the thin border between rational and irrational is no longer reliable. Severina confirms Rey Rosa's privileged place in contemporary world literature.
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