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Carlos Yushimito

Translated by Alfred Mac Adam

‘I thought I’d found the answer to many of life’s mysteries, but I had no words to share with the world.’

Carlos Yushimito

Carlos Yushimito is a Peruvian writer, born in Lima in 1977. He has published the short story collections El mago (The Magician, 2004), Las islas (The Islands, 2006), Equis (X, 2009), Lecciones para un niño que llega tarde (Lessons for a Child that is Late, 2011), Los bosques tienen sus propias puertas (Forests have their own Doors, 2013) and Rizoma (2015). 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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