Breathing, In Dust
Tim Z. Hernandez (U.S./Mexico)

American Book Award winner Hernandez, a writer and performer originally from Central California’s San Joaquin Valley, is the recipient of the 2006 Zora Neale Hurston Award as well as the San Francisco Foundation’s 2003 James Duval Phelan Award for emerging writers.
Hernandez is one of the finest and most exciting voices from the new generation of Latino writers! —Bloomsbury Review

Symphony in White
Adriana Lisboa (Brazil)
Translated by Sarah Green

After publication of her first novel, Os fios da memória (The Threads of Memory), Lisboa was celebrated as the new star of recent Brazilian literature. In 2003 she received the José Saramago Fiction Prize for her 2001 novel Sinfonia em branco (Symphony in white). In 2007, she was selected by the organizers of the Bogotá World Book Capital as one of the thirty-nine highest-profile Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine.
A writer for the future. . . . She holds great promise.—José Saramago

Changó, the Biggest Badass
Manuel Zapata Olivella (Colombia)
Translated by Jonathan Tittler
Introduction by William Luis

Afro-Colombian author Zapata Olivella’s 1983 postmodern masterpiece Changó, el gran putas presents the epic of the Afro-Hispanic diaspora from the sixteenth-century slave trade to Malcolm X. His other two works to appear in English translation (A Saint Is Born in Chima and Chambacú: Black Slum) were published to great critical acclaim in the U.S. "Olivella tells of a Latin America we seldom hear about," wrote Calvin Forbes in the Washington Post, "yet the picture is as familiar as a glance in the mirror."
Praise for Chambacú: Black Slum
A superbly conceived novel. . . . gives American readers the opportunity to read one of the most accomplished Afro-Latin-American writers. —Latin American Literature and Arts