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Argentina
The Planets
by Sergio Chejfec
translated from the Spanish
by Heather Cleary
“… another slim yet weighty work straddling the
border between the novel and memoir, all with a
healthy dose of philosophical mediation.”
—Deborah Smith
Open Letter Books | www.openletterbooks.org

Brazil
A Breath of Life
by Clarice Lispector
translated from the Portuguese
by Johnny Lorenz
“[A Breath of Life] reintroduces a canonical
writer to English readers [and] is a beautiful,
original, and deeply intelligent book by a writer
who leaves us, like the sphinx, mute and
wondering at her genius and her mystery.”
—Will Vanderhyden
New Directions | www.ndbooks.com
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