Three purchases and two review copies this time for books that have arrived over the past couple of days. Among these is a story that already is one of my favorites for the year, as well as the first manga I've ever received, which ought to make for an interesting reading experience once I get around to reading it...
Left: Álvaro Uribe, La parte ideal (collection of this Mexican writer/anthologist's critical pieces. It was interesting to read his thoughts on Mario Vargas Llosa's La fiesta del Chivo, among other writings included here); Elias Khoury, Yalo (I'm going to review this shortly, but suffice to say, this story is one of my favorite novels. Peter Thoreaux's translation is excellent, making for a a story that felt as though it were originally written in English).
Left: Jeffrey Ford, The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (this is Ford's first short story collection and it was about damn time I got around to buying it); Nina Matsumoto, Yokaiden (this is the aforementioned manga that I received. Don't know what to make of it, since I'm very unfamiliar with Japanese literature and especially this form of it).
Peter F. Hamilton, The Temporal Void (second in a space opera trilogy that began with this spring's The Dreaming Void. I'll get around to reading the first sometime in the near future...)
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