Three New October Translations
October 8, 2013
In these new translations from Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, you can visit the publishing houses of fifteenth-century Venice, the early years of Brasília, and twenty-first-century Buenos Aires.
Bound in Venice by Alessandro Marzo Magno
Translated by Gregory Conti
Paradises by Iosi Havilio
Translated by Beth Fowler
Free City by João Almino
Translated by Rhett McNeil
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