Severina

by Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Book Overview

A new translation of the Guatemalan author whom Roberto Bola o called "the most rigorous writer of my generation, the most transparent...the most luminous of all."

"Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything. . . . I knew she'd be back," the narrator/bookseller of Severina recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is dangerous. Imagine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300196091
• ISBN13: 9780300196092
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.7"