ABOUT ANDREA G. LABINGER
ANDREA G. LABINGER has published numerous translations of Latin American fiction. Gesell Dome, her translation of Guillermo Saccomanno’s noir novel Cámara Gesell (Open Letter, 2016), won a PEN/Heim Translation Award and was long-listed for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firecracker Award. Her most recent translation, Saccomanno’s 77 (Open Letter 2019) was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Best Translated Book Awards.
Copyright
Copyright © 2021, Patricia Ratto
English Translation Copyright © 2021, Andrea G. Labinger
The stories in this collection originally appeared in different form in the following publications:
“Rara Avis,” “Chinese Boy,” “As If The World Were Ending,” “Neko Café,” and “The Guest” originally published in Spanish as “Rara Avis,” “Muchacho Chino,” “Como si se acabara el mundo,” “Neko café,” and “El invitado” in the collection Faunas © 2017 by Adriana Hidalgo Editora, Francisco de Vittoria 2324, Planta Baja, Ciudad De Buenos Aires, Argentina
Submerged originally published in Spanish as Trasfondo © 2012 by Adriana Hidalgo Editora, Francisco de Vittoria 2324, Planta Baja, Ciudad De Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Black Dog” originally published in Spanish as “Perro negro” in the anthology GOLPES, MEMORIAS DE LA DICTADURA © 2016 by Planeta-Seix Barral, Av. Diagonal, 662-664, 08034 Barcelona
“Quintay” was originally published in Spanish in Hispamerica: Journal of Literature at the University of Maryland (Year XLVII, No. 140, 201) and in Summer Supplement 12 of the Argentine newspaper Página 12 (January, 2019)
“Proceed With Caution” was originally published in Spanish in Summer Supplement 12 of the Argentine newspaper Página 12 (January, 2020)
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