The Eighth Wonder
a novel
$36.55
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
11 August 2026
Summary
A fantastical story where the protagonist is caught between reality and the feverish inventions of his mind by a groundbreaking female novelist of Argentina’s metaphysical tradition.
Available for the first time in English, this classic of Latin American literature–in the tradition of Borges, her mentor–features a foreword by Adolfo Bioy Casares.
Alberto Paradella, a divorced lawyer, journalist, and writer who is thirty-two years old, wakes up one morning in Buenos Aires next …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644215579 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1644215578 |
| Author: | Vlady Kociancich, Jessica Sequeira, Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 11 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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About The Author
Vlady Kociancich
VLADY KOCIANCICH (1941-2022) was a writer, literary critic, and translator. Alberto Manguel includes her in “that prestigious and select group of essential Argentine writers kept secret.” While Borges taught her to read, Bioy Casares taught her to write, yet her genealogy and approach to the fantastic are uniquely her own. Her influences range from H. G. Wells to Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and Julio Cortazar.
She is the author of over a dozen books, including:
- Novels:
- The Eighth Wonder (1982)
- The Last Days of William Shakespeare (1984)
- El templo de las mujeres (1996)
- Short Story Collections:
- Coraje (1971)
- Cuando leas esta carta (1998)
- La ronda de los jinetes muertos (1996, finalist for the R mulo Gallegos Prize in 2007)
- Essay Collection:
- La raza de los nerviosos (2006)
Her translations into Spanish include Joseph Conrad’s The End of the Tether. She also taught at the Complutense University of Madrid and regularly contributed to the newspapers La Naci n and Clarin.
She won awards including the City of Buenos Aires Short Story Prize, the Torrente Ballester Prize, two Konex Foundation and Fondo Nacional de las Artes Jorge Luis Borges Prizes, and the Esteban Echeverria Trajectory Prize.
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