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Fabio Morabito was born in Egypt to an Italian family. When he was fifteen, his family relocated from Milan to Mexico City, and he has written all his work in Spanish ever since. He has published four books of poetry, four short-story collections, one book of essays, and two novels, and has translated into Spanish the work of many great Italian poets of the twentieth century, including Eugenio Montale and Patrizia Cavalli. Morabito has been awarded numerous prizes, most recently the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, Mexico's highest literary award, for Home Reading Service. His work has been translated into several languages. He lives in Mexico City. Curtis Bauer is a poet and translator of prose and poetry from Spanish. He is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a Banff International Literary Translation Centre fellowship. His translation of Jeannette Clariond's Image of Absence won the International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction Book Translation from Spanish to English. Bauer teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Texas Tech University.
Winner of the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2019 Winner of the Prix Roger Caillois 2019 First, the tempting promise of an almost existential discovery, then bewilderment, subtle humor, and then everything in this story that seemed small and simple strikes back with extraordinary resonance. What a pleasure it always is to read Morabito. --Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream and Mouthful of Birds I don't think you can be a writer of this generation without rolling around in the work of Morabito, who taught us that writing is about playing with sounds. That is what happens in this novel, in which a home reader plays with the different ways of listening of seven families and stumbles between the healing power of words and the passion for literature, while serving a sentence and transforming his life. --Emiliano Monge, author of Among the Lost and The Arid Sky The fascinating story of a man lost in his own thoughts who nevertheless transforms the lives of the people he interacts with. A great novel. --Sin Embargo [A] magnificent novel...Morabito uncovers mysteries of everyday life. --Criterio Hidalgo [Home Reading Service is] finely constructed, with a joyful and joyfully whimsical melancholy. --Liberation
This is Where the Serpent Lives...
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