The Word of the Speechless: Selected Stories

By Julio Ramón Ribeyro

Book Overview

Available in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest South American writers of the 20th century.

The Peruvian writer Julio Ram n Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, Ribeyro said about his stories, "in most of them] those who are deprived of words in life find expression--the marginalized, the forgotten, those condemned to an existence without harmony and without voice. I have restored to them the breath they've been denied, and I've allowed them to modulate their own longings, outbursts, and distress." This is work of deep humanity, imbued with a disorienting lyricism that is Ribeyro's alone. The Word of the Speechless, edited and translated by Katherine Silver, introduces readers to an indispensable and unforgettable voice of Latin American fiction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681373238
• ISBN13: 9781681373232
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"