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This novel received considerable good coverage during 2013, being placed on several Best Books of the Year lists, including one by The New Republic.
Pedro Mairal made a splash with his debut novel, Una noche con Sabrina Love, which tells the story of an 18-year-old boy who wins a night with a porn star of his dreams. That book was made into a film by Alejandro Agresti and was widely translated. Mairal, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1970, is a professor of English literature; he has been recognized as one of the most original voices in Latin American literature today, and in 1998 was awarded the Premio Clarin. He is also the author of the book of short stories Hoy temprano and the novel El ano del desierto. In 2007 he was included in the Bogota 39, which named the best Latin American authors.
Mairal's quickening prose moves from the ordinary to the opulent .
. . without skipping a beat. The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra
will surely leave some readers thinking of Henry James's tragicomic
accounts of the artist's life."
--Jed Perl, The New RepublicMairal isn't your old college
literature professor's idea of an Argentine novelist.
--The Los Angeles TimesAffirms Pedro Mairal's stature as one of the
most significant Argentine writers working today.
--David Leavitt, author of Shelter in Place and The Two Hotel
FrancfortsThis enigmatic novel delights in its understated
style.
--Publishers WeeklyPedro Mairal's The Missing Year of Juan
Salvatierra... repeatedly provides the reader with such a
satisfying sense of closure that one is temped to dive right back
in after finishing that slender novel so as to luxuriate in those
39 last phrases and paragraphs ... Mairal is a master craftsman
comparable to compatriot Jorge Luis Borges.
--The Critical Flame"The language is brilliant; pages overflow with
fresh ideas and colorful descriptions ... The story is compelling,
of course, but it is the language, my god the language that does
the gripping. It is Mairal's descriptions--so vivid, so rich and
exact--that make this book so enchanting a read."
--The Coffin Factory The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra is an
engaging celebration of art as a force of nature, the fragile yet
indomitable demand for possibility despite the constraints of a
torpid existence.
--The Arts FuseAt large (and for such a small book it's remarkably
outsize), The Missing Year is a bucolic, yet sumptuous family drama
on the River Uruguay that is also a quiet farce of the
international art market.
--Bookslut
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