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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

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Saramago recommends as "one of the most skilled and original" of Portugal's new generation of novelists, GonÃ§alo M. Tavares. Doesn't look like Sr. Tavares has any works published in English yet (this might be wrong -- his translations page lists rights for most of his works having already been bought for "English in India only" -- but it's not clear that those translations have been published) but definitely someone to keep an eye out for. When he received the Saramago Prize in 2005, Saramago said "JerusalÃ©m is a great book, and truly deserves a place among the great works of Western literature. GonÃ§alo M. Tavares has no right to be writing so well at the age of 35. One feels like punching him!"

posted evening of Sunday, March first, 2009
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Thanks for the recommend of Joel Rothberg in your sidebar. Great stuff!

posted evening of March third, 2009 by painter ofblue

I tried for months to get the translations last year. I couldn't do it. I think at least the slimmer volumes were published by Transworld (or something, I can dig up my notes...).

He's one I'm very eagerly awaiting.

posted afternoon of March 4th, 2009 by Bill

Ah! Yep, I see them in TransBooks' catalog -- says they are only for sale in India and Portugal. I wonder if there is an amazon.pt or amazon.in I could check with... Also I wonder if they are going to do JerusalÃ©m.

posted afternoon of March 4th, 2009 by Jeremy

...No, there is not; but TransBooks has an online purchase page. E.J. van Lanen of 3% says the neighborhood books are "incredible little books, and the stories remind me a lot of Augosto Monterroso's"

posted afternoon of March 4th, 2009 by Jeremy

I think it was that very post that put Sr. Tavares on my radar.

Look how quickly you unman me! I should swear, in defense of my honor and eCompetence that the publisher had no such online order form in the early months of 2008! :)

I wonder, when these books get picked up stateside, whether they will be rolled into one volume?

posted evening of March 4th, 2009 by Bill

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