Description:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION
Finally, the Colombian Fernando Vallejo's masterpiece, The Abyss, is available in English in a stunning translation by Yvette Siegert
Brief description: The poet Yvette Siegert has also translated The Reef by Juan Villoro and Alejandra Pizarnik's poetry collections A Musical Hell, Diana's Tree, and Extracting the Stone of Madness, for which she won the 2017 Best Translated Book Award.
Review Quotes: Proof that people in Colombia don't read is that Vallejo hasn't been shot yet.--Juan Gabriel Vásquez