Mario Bellatin

• Oct-2007
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Three modern, edgy and superb stories by famous Mexican author Mario Bellatin--Chinese Checkers, Hero Dogs and My Skin Luminous--translated by Cooper Renner. This, his first book to appear in English, promises us an fascinating, unsettling and import...

• Jul-2009
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• May-2013
• / General Fiction
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Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin introduces the revolutionary work of a mysterious Japanese writer whose very existence has been all but erased from world literature. A writer who inspired Juan Rulfo and José María Arguedas, Shiki Nagaoka’s work h...

• May-2015
• / Literary
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Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation -- a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside tavern. But whe...

• Feb-2016
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In The Large Glass, celebrated Mexican innovator Mario Bellatin now examines his most complicated subject; himself. Featuring three different autobiographies, The Large Glass challenges the absurd and hubristic project of the autobiography itself  -...

• Nov-2017
• / Literary
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Mario Bellatin's playful biography of the most influential and largest-nosed obscure Japanese writer of the last century, Shiki Nagaoka, has proven to be so popular that it is now being reissued by Phoneme Media. With this book, Bellatin succeeded in...

• Dec-2020
• / Literary
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From the groundbreaking author of Beauty Salon, The Large Glass, Jacob the Mutant, Mario Bellatin delivers a rousing, allegorical novel following the widowed keeper of a mysterious garden. When art student Izu’s teacher asks her to visit the famous...

• Apr-2021
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In this epistolary novel that blurs the line between reality and fiction, Mario Bellatin writes to a mysterious correspondent he has only met once, to discuss the mysteries of the resurrection of the flesh. Bellatin details the fantastical events tha...

• May-2023
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A novel about the power of literature and the tension of authorship, from literary master Mario Bellatin. Two siblings live in a psychiatric center. Their communication is complicated: he is deaf and she partially hears thanks to an operation. Using ...

• Apr-2025
• / Literary
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From Latin America’s literary prankster Mario Bellatin: a novella that puzzles from the first page with its liminal, Lynchian atmosphere.In an unnamed country by the sea, a grieving kleptomaniac known only as Our Woman is determined to reach the Ho...