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To celebrate the upcoming release (Nov. 20) of Juan Gelman’s Dark Times Filled with Light, we’re giving away 10 copies via the GoodReads giveaway program. All you have to do to enter (if you’re a member of GoodReads) is click on the box below. The giveaway went live this morning, and will close on November 15th, so if you want a chance to win, do it soon!
To give you a sense of Gelman’s importance and poetry, here’s a bit from Paul Pines’s introduction:
Juan Gelman was born in Buenos Aires in 1930 to a father who had participated in the 1905 Russian revolution before immigrating to Argentina. Juan was a political activist until the 1976 Argentine coup d’état brought a reign of terror to Buenos Aires. Gelman’s son, Marcelo, and daughter-in-law, Claudia, pregnant with the poet’s grandchild, were “disappeared.” The poet spent the next thirty years as an exile in Mexico and Europe. In 2000, after decades of searching, he located his granddaughter, born before her mother’s murder and given to a pro-government family in Uruguay.
The Argentina that nurtured the tango, and then “disappeared” its people, became the crucible for a poet. Steeped in the authority of his wound, Gelman’s poems transform the unspeakable into an affirmation that locates light even in the darkest of times:
dark times / filled with light / the sun
spreads sunlight over the city split
by sudden sirens / the police hunt goes on / night falls and we’ll
make love under this roof
Enter below, and if you’d rather just buy the book, you can order it directly from us for $11.95.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Dark Times Filled with Light
by Juan Gelman
Giveaway ends November 15, 2012.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
For all you GoodReads users, we’re giving away 10 copies of Kristin Omarsdottir’s Children in Reindeer Woods though their special program. To enter, simply click on the button below before March 31st.
In terms of this book, it’s a very intriguing novel that’s kind of like a war book that’s not about a war. It opens in shocking fashion with a group of paratroopers descending on an idyllic farmhouse and killing everyone in site. Then one paratrooper turns on the others, and by page three, the only people remaining are Rafael—a soldier who wants to start life over as a farmer—and the eleven-year-old Billie, a precious and strange child who had been living at the Children in Reindeer Woods foster home.
As the book progresses, it becomes less about war—the when and where of this war are displaced and made intentionally irrational, transforming this into a more mythic, or universal sort of story—and more about the relationship between these two characters who are building an oasis amid a culture of violence.
Back at the MLA conference, I gave a copy of this to a friend who texted me the next day to say that it gave her “the most fucked up dreams ever . . . in a good way.” It really is that strange and powerful and vivid.
It’s also going to be reviewed in the New York Times Book Review next month. So get your copy now, either by entering below, or simply buying it through our website.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Children in Reindeer Woods
by Kristin Omarsdottir
Giveaway ends March 31, 2012.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
This month our GoodReads Giveaway is for The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara. A strange, fragmented, playful book, fans of Pynchon or Basara’s earlier work (Chinese Letter available from Dalkey Archive) will definitely love this. It’s sort of like The DaVinci Code meets The Crying of Lot 49. Or something like that.
Oh, and people obsessed with bicycles will dig it as well. And those who like to smash clocks. Seriously. You just have to read it to understand.
Sign up below before the end of the month to have a chance to win one of these 10 copies.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Cyclist Conspiracy
by Svetislav Basara
Giveaway ends November 30, 2011.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
The Smoke of Distant Fires by Eduardo Chirinos is the second book in our International Poetry Series, and to help spread the word about this collection (which G. J. Racz did an amazing job translating), we’re giving away 10 copies through GoodReads. Just click below to enter.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Smoke of Distant Fires
by Eduardo Chirinos
Giveaway ends September 30, 2011.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
We’re bringing out Scars, the the follow-up to Juan Jose Saer’s critically acclaimed The Sixty-Five Years of Washington this December, but if you can’t wait till then, you can enter into the GoodReads Giveaway by clicking on the link below. Contest closes on the 15th, at which time 10 lucky winners will be selected . . .
Over at GoodReads, we’re giving away 10 copies of Milen Ruskov’s Thrown into Nature, which will be coming out this November.
If you want a chance to win one, just click on the link below before the end of the month.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Thrown into Nature
by Milen Ruskov
Giveaway ends August 31, 2011.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
Karaoke Culture doesn’t officially come out until October 25th, but 15 lucky people will win copies of Dubrakva Ugresic’s latest (and in the opinion of some, greatest) book through this GoodReads giveaway. Just click below to enter yourself in the drawing.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Karaoke Culture
by Dubravka Ugrešić
Giveaway ends August 15, 2011.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
As with other recent books, we’re giving away 10 copies of Guadalajara via Goodreads. Accepting entries until June 15th, so follow the instructions below for a chance to win.
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