Books from Charco Press

  • Fate
    Fate
    By Jorge Consiglio

    didn't show up at the second Tobar García meeting. Amer waited for her in vain. When the session was over, he told the guy from Córdoba that he wasn't heading back home. He made up an excuse. He meandered aimlessly for almost two hours ...

  • Older Brother
    Older Brother
    By Daniel Mella

    They'd been planning to move in together in Maldonado when the season was over. How had the girl managed to escape the lightning? 'She didn't entirely escape – she lost her memory,' says Marcos as he smokes, looking out across ...

  • Havana Year Zero
    Havana Year Zero
    By Karla Suárez

    The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc.For Julia, a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching, this is Year Zero: the lowest possible point.

  • Dead Girls
    Dead Girls
    By Selva Almada

    In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the interior of Argentina.Three deaths without culprits: 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; 15-year ...

  • The Adventures of China Iron
    The Adventures of China Iron
    By Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

    With humour and sophistication, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara has created a joyful, hallucinatory novel that is also an incisive critique of national myths.

  • Holiday Heart
    Holiday Heart
    By Margarita García Robayo

    9 In my house, I uctuate between the cynical hyperrationality of the gloomy and the crushing idiocy of the cheerful. I rmly believe that the trigger for both conditions has to do with sounds: the sounds of the home activate a sensor in ...

  • The Distance Between Us
    The Distance Between Us
    By Renato Cisneros

    Recalling Gabriel García Márquez’s _One Hundred Years of Solitude _and Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits, the renowned journalist and writer Renato Cisneros probes deep into his own family history to try to come to terms with his ...

  • Occupation
    Occupation
    By Julián Fuks

    "This is one beautiful book."—Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer’s conversations ...

  • Fireflies
    Fireflies
    By Luis Sagasti

    Stanley Kubrick, Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Neil Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Beatles, Japanese poets, Brazilian priests, Russian cosmonauts and many more cross these pages, and Sagasti finds common threads that weave ...

  • Theatre of War
    Theatre of War
    By Andrea Jeftanovic

    This assured debut novel from acclaimed Chilean author Andrea Jeftanovic explores the devastating psychological effects of the conflict in the Balkans on a family who flee to South America to build a new life.

  • A Musical Offering
    A Musical Offering
    By Luis Sagasti

    From the music born of the sun to the music sent into space on the Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music, from the composers of the concentration camps to a weeping room for Argentinian conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering ...

  • A Perfect Cemetery
    A Perfect Cemetery
    By Federico Falco

    In disarming, darkly humorous stories, Federico Falco explores themes of obsessive love, romantic attachment and the strategies we must find to cope with death and painful longing.

  • Homesick
    Homesick
    By Jennifer Croft

    Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 Finalist The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood.

  • Elena Knows
    Elena Knows
    By Claudia Piñeiro

    Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.

  • Trout Belly Up
    Trout Belly Up
    By Rodrigo Fuentes

    Told with precision and a stark beauty, Trout, Belly Up is a beguiling, disturbing ensemble of moments set in the heart of a rural landscape in a country where brutality is never far from the surface.

  • The Rooftop
    The Rooftop
    By Fernanda Trías

    In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. "The world is this house," says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom.

  • The President's Room
    The President's Room
    By Ricardo Romero

    Ricardo Romero has been compared to Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, and we see why in this eerie, meditative novel narrated by a shy young boy who seems to be very good at lying about the truth.

  • Salt Crystals
    Salt Crystals
    By Cristina Bendek

    ... state can say now. But Rudy isn't Raizal and I can already picture the drama ... Colombian diplomatic elite, where all ambassadors are hand-picked by the ... state will argue that it has attained sovereignty through its citizens: that ...

  • Byobu
    Byobu
    By Ida Vitale

    Byobu reveals a rich inner world, one driven by its meticulous attention to our rich outer one. "a story’s existence, even if not well defined or well assigned, even if only in its formative stage, just barely latent, emits vague but ...