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Deng’s Dogs

Santiago Roncagliolo

Translated by Alfred Mac Adam

‘My earliest memory of Peru is a newspaper photograph from 1980 of dead dogs hanging from lamp posts in downtown Lima.’

Santiago Roncagliolo

Roncagliolo was born in Lima, and his family temporarily left Peru for political reasons in 1977. His novel Pudor (2005) was made into a film and his political thriller Abril rojo received the Alfaguara Prize in 2006 and is published in English as Red April (2010). Memorias de una dama (2009), tracing the origins of the Mafia in Cuba, was censored and its publication is prohibited throughout the entire world. His latest novel La Pena Máxima (2014), is set in the 78 World Cup during the Argentinian dictatorship. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2010, he was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young Spanish Language Novelists.

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Translated by Alfred Mac Adam

Alfred Mac Adam is a professor of Latin American Literature at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has translated works by Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, José Donoso, Juan Carlos Onetti, Fernando Pessoa, Osvaldo Soriano and Mario Vargas Llosa, and most recently Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi.

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