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Books by Edith Grossman
  | | Living to Tell the Tale(Reprint) by Gabriel García Márquez, Ms Edith Grossman, Edith Grossman Paperback, 533 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3454-3, ISBN: 1-4000-3454-X "Living to Tell the Tale, the first of three projected volumes in the memoirs of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez, narrates what, on the surface appears to be the portrait of the young artist through the mid-1950s. But the masterful work, which draws on the craft of the author's best fiction, has a depth and richness that transcends straightforward autobiography. Echoing Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisit ..." |
 | | Why Translation Matters (Why X Matters Series) by Edith Grossman Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2011 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-17130-3, ISBN: 0-300-17130-7 "From the celebrated translator of Cervantes and Garciá Márquez, a testament to the power of the translator's art Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator’s role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, “My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature that is too often ignored, m ..." |
 | | Nada(Reprint) A Novel (Modern Library Classics) by Carmen/ Var Laforet, Edith Grossman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carmen Laforel Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Modern Library ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7583-3, ISBN: 0-8129-7583-9 "One of the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain, Nada is the semiautobiographical story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona. Edith Grossmanâs vital new translation captures Carmen Laforetâs feverish energy, powerful imagery, and subtle humor. Nada, which includes an illuminating Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa, is one of the great novels of twentieth- ..." |
 | | The Golden Age(1st Edition) Poems of the Spanish Renaissance by Edith Grossman, Billy Collins Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32991-9, ISBN: 0-393-32991-7 ""Edith Grossman again demonstrates that she indeed is the Glenn Gould of translators."―Harold Bloom Celebrating the Spanish Renaissance's greatest poems and offering a new appreciation of Spain's "Golden Age, " Edith Grossman turns her passionate fervor and stylistic brilliance to the works of Jorge Manrique; Garcilaso de la Vega, a soldier and courtier who wrote love poetry; Fray Luis de León, a converso Jew; San Juan de la Cruz, whose ..." |
 | | Don Quixote(Reprint) by Miguel De Cervantes, Edith Grossman, Harold Bloom, Cervantes Saavedra Paperback, 992 Pages, Published 2005 by Ecco Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-06-093434-7, ISBN: 0-06-093434-4 "Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadEdith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece, in an expanded P.S. editionWidely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain ..." |
 | | Solitude & Company The Life of Gabriel García Márquez Told with Help from His Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks, and a Few Respectable Souls by Silvana Paternostro, Edith Grossman Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-64421-002-4, ISBN: 1-64421-002-9 "Irreverent and hopeful, Solitude & Company recounts the life of a boy from the provinces who decided to become a writer. This is the story of how he did it, how little Gabito became Gabriel García Márquez, and of how Gabriel García Márquez survived his own self-creation." |
 | | Happy Families Fiction by Carlos Fuentes, Edith Grossman Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2009 by Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7843-8, ISBN: 0-8129-7843-9 "In these spectacular vignettes, the internationally acclaimed author Carlos Fuentes explores Tolstoy’s classic observation that “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” In “A Family Like Any Other,” each member of the Pagán family lives in isolation, despite sharing a tiny house. In “The Mariachi’s Mother,” the limitless devotion of a woman is revealed as she secretly tends to her estranged son’s w ..." |
 | | The Bad Girl(Reprint) A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Picador Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42776-4, ISBN: 0-312-42776-X ""A "New York Times "Notable Book of 2007""""Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s--and 70s and 80s."--"The New York Times Book Review"""""Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappear ..." |
 | | Caracol Beach(Reprint) A Novel by Eliseo Alberto, Edith Grossman Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2001 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70506-9, ISBN: 0-375-70506-6 "Eliseo Alberto's award-winning Caracol Beach combines the passionate imagination of magic realism with the plotting of a thriller (and a modicum of farce). The result is a literary tour de force.Beto Milanes, the night watchman at a graveyard in the Florida resort town of Caracol Beach, is a guilt-ridden Cuban war veteran. Tormented by memories and hallucinations, he yearns to die but is unable to take his own life. Instead, he decides ..." |
 | | Love in the Time of Cholera(Reprint) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman, Gabriel GarcãA MãRquez Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2003 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3468-0, ISBN: 1-4000-3468-X "In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he f ..." |
 | | News of a Kidnapping(Reprint) From the Nobel Laureate, the International Bestseller That Takes Us into the Horrific World of the Medellin Drug Cartel (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman, Gabriel GarcãA MãRquez Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1998 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-026944-4, ISBN: 0-14-026944-4 "During the 1980s, the government of Colombia signed a treaty with the United States allowing for the extradition of Colombian citizens. This caused a great deal of distress among the kingpins of the Medellín drug cartel. Why? Traffickers like Pablo Escobar had spent the decade exporting billions of dollars' worth of cocaine. They weren't likely to be arrested at home, but if extradited and tried in America, they would spend the rest of ..." |
 | | Strange Pilgrims(Reprint) Stories (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1994 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-023940-9, ISBN: 0-14-023940-5 "The Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera presents a collection of twelve stories that feature an aging streetwalker and her gravesite-mourning dog, a bereaved father's journey to Rome, a paranoid husband, and more. Reprint. AB. K. " |
 | | Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman, Gabriel GarcãA MãRquez Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 1994 by Penguin Usa Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-14-011990-9, ISBN: 0-14-011990-6 "Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Màrquez \n\nSet in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories of unrequited love. "This shining and heartbreaking novel," Thomas Pynchon wrote in The New York Times Book Review, is one of those few rare works "that can even return our worn souls to us." \n\nMary Wesley on Garcia Marquez's ..." |
 | | Red April(1st Edition) A Novel by Santiago Roncagliolo, Edith Grossman Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Pantheon Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-42544-8, ISBN: 0-375-42544-6 "This is an internationally acclaimed political thriller by one of Latin America's most important and exciting young writers, the winner of Spain's coveted Alfaguara Prize. Translated by one of our most celebrated literary translators, Edith Grossman, "Red April" is quite simply a must read for anyone who loved Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives and 2666". "Red April" evokes Holy Week during a cruel, bloody, and terrifying time in P ..." |
 | | News of a Kidnapping(Reprint) (Vintage International) by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3493-2, ISBN: 1-4000-3493-0 "During the 1980s, the government of Colombia signed a treaty with the United States allowing for the extradition of Colombian citizens. This caused a great deal of distress among the kingpins of the Medellín drug cartel. Why? Traffickers like Pablo Escobar had spent the decade exporting billions of dollars' worth of cocaine. They weren't likely to be arrested at home, but if extradited and tried in America, they would spend the re ..." |
 | | Death in the Andes(1st Edition) A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42725-2, ISBN: 0-312-42725-5 "Death in the Andes is a story of brutality and fear and ignorance. The language is often coarse and vulgar. The ending is especially disturbing. Were it not for the remarkable writing of Mario Vargas Llosa, I might have put this unsettling story aside. But Mario Vargas Llosa is a captivating story teller and I found myself wanting to know more and more about his characters that inhabit the harsh mountains of Peru. The reader encounters ..." |
 | | Of Love And Other Demons(1st Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1995 by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-43853-3, ISBN: 0-679-43853-X "From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera comes an extraordinary reading experience, the story of a doomed love affair between a twelve-year-old girl and a bookish priest, three times her age, who's been sent to oversee her exorcism." |
 | | The Dream of the Celt(1st Edition) A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2012 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-374-14346-6, ISBN: 0-374-14346-3 "A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas LlosaIn 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native populations in the Belgian Congo and the Amazon--but when he dared to draw a parallel between the inju ..." |
 | | In the Palm of Darkness(1st Edition) by Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman Paperback, 181 Pages, Published 1997 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-018703-3, ISBN: 0-06-018703-4 "Two men of very different cultures--American herpetologist Victor Griggs and his Haitian guide, Thierry Adrien--embark on a obsessive odyssey through the mountains of Haiti in search of a mysterious amphibian, the blood frog. First serial, Conjunctions. Tour." |
 | | News of a Kidnapping(1st Edition) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman Hardcover, 291 Pages, Published 1997 by Alfred A. Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-40051-3, ISBN: 0-375-40051-6 "This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women--all but one a journalist--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated abductions were Escobar's attempt to extort from the government its assurance that he, and other narcotics traffickers, would not be extradited to the United States if they were to surrender.From the highest corrido ..." |
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