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Norte stays with the reader not only because of the rhythm of its histories, but also because it says something transcendent about the horror of the present, the horror that it is impossible not to see as well as the one which is neatly camouflaged. --Yuri Herrera

These voices speak of displacement, grief, and loss, the result of the painful tension between the cultural self and the smothering seduction of the United States, <i>el Norte</i>. . . . Paz Soldan has written a riveting and gritty story. . . . What I find so appealing about <i>Norte</i> is that Paz Soldan makes no attempt to sugarcoat the grim and persistent realities he portrays about immigrants who face being 'one more digit in a disposable labor force . . . at the cost of living without dreams.' He clearly asserts that the struggle against <i>perder</i><i> el norte </i>is an arduous process of keeping one s soul on the immigrant journey; his novel is but one stop on that journey. --Russell J. MacMullan Jr. Washington Independent Review of Books

The issues addressed in [<i>Norte</i>] are . . . crucial to current debates about the border and immigration . . . compelling. . . . A thriller. --Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis on the Spanish edition

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Born in Bolivia, Edmundo Paz Soldan is professor of Latin American literature at Cornell University. He is the multiple-award-winning author of five short story collections and ten novels, two of which, Turing's Delirium and The Matter of Desire, have been translated into English. Valerie Miles is a translator, publisher, writer, and professor for literary translation at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She is founding codirector of Granta en espa ol and founding editor of the New York Review of Books Classics collection in Spanish translation. Her recent works include A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction; Because She Never Asked, a translation of Enrique Vila-Matas's work Porque ella no lo pidi; and This Too Shall Pass, a translation of Milena Busquet's Eso tambi n pasara.

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