Let the Wind Speak (Extraordinary Classics) - Softcover

Juan Carlos Onetti

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852421967 ISBN 13: 9781852421960

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 1996

Synopsis

New title from the author of A Brief Life and The Shipyard, recognised as the Grahm Greene of Uruguay

About this title

About the Author:

Acknowledged as one of the great Latin American writers of the twentieth century, Juan Carlos Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1909. For many years he worked as a journalist in Buenos Aires. His novels include The Well, No Man's Life, and his best known work, The Shipyard. He was awarded Uruguay's national literature prize in 1963 and Spain's prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1980. He lived in Madrid until his death in 1994.

Review:

Latin American literature has few secrets to divulge to the English-speaking world; but one of them is the Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti -- Gerald Martin * Guardian * Is The Shipyard a one-off masterpiece? I hope that having reconstituted it for English readers, the translator and publisher will decide to take the rust off the rest of Onetti's works. -- John Spurling * Spectator * The Graham Greene of Uruguay... foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus. * Sunday Telegraph * A rare chance to catch up with the neglected Uruguan novelist * Metro * Onetti's world is sick and his hero sick of it, but his compelling, messy existentialism makes Let the Wind Speak a deceptively modern novel, and its reissue a cause for celebration * Observer * A perplexing but inspiring writer * Guardian *

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1852421967
• ISBN 13: 9781852421960
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288