VALERIe MILES
Valerie Miles is an American writer, editor, and translator who lives in Barcelona. In 2003, she co-founded Granta en español, which she now oversees under the independent publishing house Galaxia Gutenberg. Her first book, A Thousand Forests in One Acorn, was published in English by Open Letter in 2014. She has worked closely with the Roberto Bolaño estate in reading through his archive material and preparing work for publication, which grew into the first exhibition of his unpublished papers, Archivo Bolaño, 1977 - 2003. She writes and reviews for the New York Times, The Paris Review, El País, La Nación, La Vanguardia, and el ABC, among others. She translates from the Spanish and Catalán and is a professor in the postgraduate program for literary translation at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
titles translated by valerie miles
Carlos Yushimito
Translated by Valerie Miles
A mascot for an electronics store dreams of making it in the drug world of Rio de Janeiro. A tin man ponders the mysteries of death as a heart starts to take charge of his limbs, while in a place not so far away a boy tries to play the piano like Margarita, the teacher’s cruel and beautiful niece. In stories filled with violence and tenderness, love and disconnection, Carlos Yushimito’s long-anticipated debut explores the subtle space of estrangement.
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