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World Books Interview: Homage to “The Halfway House”

By World Books ⋅ October 16, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

Jose Manuel Prieto An interview with Cuban writer José Manuel Prieto about the English translation of the late Guillermo Rosales’s “The Halfway House,” a powerful novel about exile, revolution, and mental illness.

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World Books Review: A Journey Through Literary Time

By World Books ⋅ June 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Transcript

41lenEGFeRL._SL500_AA240_-150x150Jose Manuel Prieto’s “Rex” is an adventure through time: not historical time, or physical time, so much as literary time, the dreamy, static continuum of impressions and formulations recorded across centuries and civilizations.

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