Juan Jose Saer

• Jun-1994
• / Literary
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Never has a title better summed up a book. This tedious novel about a couple of monotonous days in the lives of some very colorless characters is the second book by the Argentine-born Saer to be translated into English. Elisa and Cat are lovers who s...

• Jul-1999
• / Suspense
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He's called 'the monster of the Bastille'. He's brutally murdered 27 elderly women in one area of Paris. Chief Inspector Morvan is in charge of the investigation into this macabre and sinister case: every victim seems to have invited the killer into ...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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“The evocative imagery and ideas revealed in The Witness are not easily forgotten.” -- Washington Times

“Haunting and beautifully written.” -- Independent on Sunday

In sixteenth-century Spain, a cabin boy sets sail on a ship bo...

• Nov-2010
• / Literary
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"With meticulous prose, rendered by Dolph's translation into propulsive English, Saer's The Sixty-Five Years of Washington captures the wilderness of human experience in all its variety." -- New York TimesIt's October 1960, say, or 1961, in a seaside...

• Dec-2011
• / Literary
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"The most important Argentinian writer since Borges." -- The IndependentJuan José Saer's Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine year old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the c...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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"A cerebral explorer of the problems of narrative in the wake of Joyce and Woolf, of Borges, of Rulfo and Arlt, Saer is also a stunning poet of place.""-The NationSaer''s final novel, La Grande, is the grand culmination of his life''s work, bringing ...

• Jun-2015
• / Literary
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"The most important Argentinian writer since Borges." -- The IndependentThe One Before is a triptych of sorts, consisting of a series of short pieces -- called "Arguments" -- and two longer stories -- "Half-Erased" and "The One Before" -- all of whic...

• May-2016
• / Literary
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"Saer is one of the best writers of today in any language." -- Ricardo Piglia"What Saer presents marvelously is the experience of reality, and the characters' attempts to write their own narratives within its excess." -- BookforumIn modern-day Paris,...

• Nov-2020
• / Literary
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One of the late Juan José Saer's most beloved novels, The Regal Lemon Tree shows a master stylist at his best. Set during day and night of New Year's Eve -- building up a barbecue that takes on ritual significance -- the novel focuses on a couple in...