People in the Room Read online

  Ivan Vladislavić, The Folly

  32

  Susana Moreira Marques, Now and at the Hour of Our Death

  translated from the Portuguese by Julia Sanches

  33

  Lina Wolff, Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs

  translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry

  34

  Anakana Schofield, Martin John

  35

  Joanna Walsh, Vertigo

  36

  Wolfgang Bauer, Crossing the Sea

  translated from the German by Sarah Pybus

  with photographs by Stanislav Krupař

  37

  Various, Lunatics, Lovers and Poets:

  Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare

  38

  Yuri Herrera, The Transmigration of Bodies

  translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman

  39

  César Aira, The Seamstress and the Wind

  translated from the Spanish by Rosalie Knecht

  40

  Juan Pablo Villalobos, I’ll Sell You a Dog

  translated from the Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

  41

  Enrique Vila-Matas, Vampire in Love

  translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa

  42

  Emmanuelle Pagano, Trysting

  translated from the French by Jennifer Higgins and Sophie Lewis

  43

  Arno Geiger, The Old King in His Exile

  translated from the German by Stefan Tobler

  44

  Michelle Tea, Black Wave

  45

  César Aira, The Little Buddhist Monk

  translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor

  46

  César Aira, The Proof

  translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor

  47

  Patty Yumi Cottrell, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

  48

  Yuri Herrera, Kingdom Cons

  translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman

  49

  Fleur Jaeggy, I am the Brother of XX

  translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff

  50

  Iosi Havilio, Petite Fleur

  translated from the Spanish by Lorna Scott Fox

  51

  Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, The Gurugu Pledge

  translated from the Spanish by Jethro Soutar

  52

  Joanna Walsh, Worlds from the Word’s End

  53

  César Aira, The Lime Tree

  translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews

  54

  Nicola Pugliese, Malacqua

  translated from Italian by Shaun Whiteside

  55

  Ann Quin, The Unmapped Country

  56

  Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline

  translated from the Italian by Tim Parks

  57

  Alicia Kopf, Brother in Ice

  translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem

  58

  Christine Schutt, Pure Hollywood

  59

  Cristina Rivera Garza, The Iliac Crest

  translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker

  60

  Norah Lange, People in the Room

  translated from the Spanish by Charlotte Whittle

  61

  Kathy Page, Dear Evelyn

  62

  Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder

  translated by Sophie Hughes

  63

  Amy Arnold, Slip of a Fish

  64

  Rita Indiana, Tentacle

  translated from the Spanish by Achy Obejas

  65

  Angela Readman, Something Like Breathing

  66

  Gerald Murnane, Border Districts

  67

  Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

  68

  César Aira, Birthday

  translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews

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  NORAH LANGE was born in 1905 to Norwegian parents in Buenos Aires. A key figure of the Argentine avant-garde, her books include the novels People in the Room and The Two Portraits, and the celebrated memoirs Notes from Childhood and Before They Die.

  CHARLOTTE WHITTLE’s translations and writing have appeared in Mantis, The Literary Review, Los Angeles Times, Guernica, Electric Literature, BOMB, Northwest Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in New York and is an editor at Cardboard House Press.