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Guatemala

Carranza? Taxis Don’t Go There

By Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez

Taxi drivers are indiscreet types.

Translated from Spanish by Geoff Bendeck

Fact or Fiction: Latin American Reportage

By Eric M. B. Becker

The writers in this month’s feature provide assurance that the genre is source of some of today’s most vibrant and compelling stories, fictional or otherwise.

Some Other Zoo

By Rodrigo Rey Rosa

I explained at the top of my voice that my daughter had disappeared.

Translated from Spanish by Daniel Hahn

Amir

By Rodrigo Fuentes

His father had just been taken down from the branch of a ceiba tree.

Translated from Spanish by Kate Newman

Multilingual

Paranoid City

By Mildred Hernández

Inside the trunk was another lifeless body.

Translated from Spanish by Anne McLean

Multilingual

“The Mastermind”: An Act of Translation

No one can understand what is going on in Guatemala.

from “With Absolute Passion”

By Carol Zardetto

I go in and out of memories as one fighting to stay awake.

Translated from Spanish by D. W. Coop Allred

Multilingual

The Ape

By Luis de Lión

“He really looks like his monkey, doesn’t he?”

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

Raspberries

By Denise Phé-Funchal

Papá’s words have a dry smell, as dry as the skin on his lips.

Translated from Spanish by Lisa M. Dillman

Multilingual

Young Aurora and the Captive Child

Young Aurora, said the butcher, wasn't Miss Aurora at all.

Translated from Spanish by Thomas Bunstead

Multilingual

On the Fourth Day

By Koulsy Lamko

Slowly but surely, exile erases us from the memory of our land.

Translated from French by Alexis Pernsteiner

Multilingual

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