The Americas
Ilan Stavans, Series editor, Irene Vilar, Associate editor


Titles in the The Americas series
(Listed in order of publication)


January 2008
Preso sin nombre, celda sin número
Spanish language edition
Jacobo Timerman
Con textos de Arthur Miller y Ariel Dorfman / With forewords by Arthur Miller and Ariel Dorfman
Ediciones de la Flor, Buenos Aires

September 2007
The Flight of the Condor
Stories of Violence and War from Colombia
Translated and compiled by Jennifer Gabrielle Edwards
Foreword by Hugo Chaparro Valderrama

July 2007
San Juan
Memoir of a City
Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá
Translated by Peter Grandbois
Foreword by Antonio Skármeta

April 2007
Golpes bajos / Low Blows
Instantáneas / Snapshots
Alicia Borinsky
Translated by Cola Franzen and the author
Foreword by Michael Wood

March 2005
The Bonjour Gene
A Novel
J.A. Marzán
With an introduction by David Huddle

February 2005
Ballad of Another Time
A Novel
José Luis González
Translated by Asa Zatz, introduction by Irene Vilar

January 2005
The Inhabited Woman
Gioconda Belli
Translated by Kathleen March
With a new foreword by Margaret Randall

January 2005
A World for Julius
A Novel
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Translated by Dick Gerdes, with a new foreword by Julio Ortega

January 2005
San Juan
Ciudad Soñada
Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá
Introduction by Antonio Skármeta
Tal Cual

November 2004
A Pan-American Life
Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee
Muna Lee
Edited and with biography by Jonathan Cohen
Foreword by Aurora Levins Morales

October 2004
The Mexico City Reader
Edited by Rubén Gallo

June 2004
Life in the Damn Tropics
A Novel
David Unger
Foreword by Gioconda Belli

June 2003
The Centaur in the Garden
Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Margaret A. Neves
With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans

March 2003
Tieta
Jorge Amado
Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello
With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans

March 2003
Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado
Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello
With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans

September 2002
The Purple Land
W. H. Hudson
With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans
Illustrated by Keith Henderson

June 2002
Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number
Jacobo Timerman
With a new introduction by Ilan Stavans
Translated by Toby Talbot, With a new foreword by Arthur Miller