Patricia Engel's collection of stories, Vida, quickly established her as one of our country's best young writers, winning praise from Junot Diaz, Uzodinma Iweala, Francisco Goldman, and others. Her first novel is a vibrant and wistful narrative...
As the collection's title suggests, time's passage is the fil rouge of these stories. All of Tabucchi's characters struggle to find routes of escape from a present that is hard to bear, and from places in which political events have had deeply...