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Mauro Javier Cárdenas

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Mauro Javier Cardenas is the author of American Abductions (Dalkey Archive, May 2024) and Aphasia (FSG, 2020) and The Revolutionaries Try Again (Coffee House Press, 2016). In 2017, The Hay Festival included him in Bogotá39, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists.

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Aphasia

3.65 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions
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The Revolutionaries Try Again

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American Abductions

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Mauro and 10 other people liked Joseph Schreiber's review of American Abductions:
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"There is something distinctly unsettling about reading this novel on the eve of Trump's second term—Racist in Chief, anyone?—especially with tech billionaire Elon Musk on his arm. Projected into a future that now seems shockingly close, American Abdu" Read more of this review »
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Following the principles advanced by Pierre Bayard in his How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, which I haven’t read, I had forgotten most of this novel, which I wrote many years ago, and so upon reading it recently I was impressed by how unforge ...more
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