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"A simple mystery constructed very cleverly ... an atmospheric and understated book with vivid settings and characters, a true delight to read."—10 Best Books Shorter than 150 Pages, Publishers Weekly on THE MISSING YEAR OF JUAN SALVATIERRA.

Farce, then tragedy | A few thoughts on Osvaldo Soriano’s novel A Funny Dirty Little War

I had never heard of the Argentinian author Osvaldo Soriano, but I plucked his novel A Funny Dirty Little War from the bookstore shelf because of its title. The goofy, menacingly violent cover, featuring an illustration by Oscar Zarate, intrigued me, and the Italo Calvino blurb on the back sold me on the book before I’d even opened it. Calvino’s blurb offers a succinct summary of the novel: A…

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende , Nick Caistor ebook pdf

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende , Nick Caistor ebook pdf In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco’s parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war, she encounters Ichimei Fukuda, the quiet and gentle son of the family’s Japanese gardener. Unnoticed by those…

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                                                 "Nick Caistor was inexplicably denied a trip to the finals last year for his stunning translation of Andres Nueman’s Traveller of the Century, but that shouldn’t be the case this year.  Caistor brings to life the images contained on Salvatierra’s canvas, and the world of his rural home in Barrancales, with all of the expressiveness of a master painter.  He knows exactly when to be vibrant and precisely when to be muted with his choice of language."

Sarah Gerard's piece on Pedro Mairal's The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra is another installment in the Three Percent blog's series of brief reviews of long-listed titles for the Best Translated Book Award for 2014. 

                                      This one is particular actually includes a shout out to New Vessel Books and to translator Nick Caistor, who's been on a real tear over the past few years, having translated several works that have made a huge impact in the translated fiction universe:

"New Vessel is a relatively new translation press, just founded in 2012 but already doing fantastic work. They did well to collaborate with Nick Caistor onThe Missing Year, as Caistor has translated some 40 books from the Spanish and Portuguese – which also bodes well for Mairal. Caistor’s sentences inThe Missing Year are sensory, but objective and concise, well-suited to the voice of Miguel Salvatierra. In the reading, The Missing Year is a pleasure, like walking down the main road of a remote village, observing its people in their day-to-day, unaware of the unstoppable advance of commercialism."

Caistor is the co-translator (with Lorenza García) of Andrés Neuman's Traveler of the Century and more recently, of Neuman's Talking to Ourselves, as well as works by Saramago, Alan Pauls, Rodolfo Fogwill, Eduardo Mendoza, Martín Kohan, and César Aira, among many others. 

Andrés Neuman's Talking To Ourselves, translated by Nick Caistor--who also co-translated Neuman's award-winning Traveller of the Century (FSG 2012)-- gets a mention for Best New Fiction April 2014, over at Typographical Era, together with work by Lydia Davis, George Saunders, and Douglas Coupland, among others. 

Publication date is April 8, from Farrar Straus Giroux.

The Three Percent review by Jeremy Garber is here, and a briefer notice at The Guardian (UK) here. 

                 Here's the brief description from Aaron Westerman at Typographical Era

Let’s count the ways this one is exciting.  1. It’s a new novel from Andrés Neuman (Traveller of the Century), a man who was robbed of a much deserved spot in the Best Translated Book Award finals last year.  2. It’s translated by Nick Caistor (The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra) who’s nominated for the award this year and who also translated that beautiful aforementioned Neuman book in partnership with 3. Lorenza Garcia.  Ah, but what’s it about you ask…

                                    Here's a link to yet another interview with Nick Caistor, co-translator of Andres Neuman's Traveller of the Century (Pushkin Press), who's also recently translated Pedro Mairal's The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra, published by New Vessel Press.