Frank Wynne

Autumn 2019

The Fallen by Carlos Manuel Álvarez

By Carlos Manuel Álvarez

London. Fitzcarraldo Editions. 2019. 131 pages. In January of this year, I had the pleasure of meeting Carlos Manuel Álvarez in Havana. We met at Café Fortuna Joe, a hipstery coffee house in Playa, a...
Autumn 2019

Among the Lost by Emiliano Monge

By Emiliano Monge

Melbourne. Scribe. 2019. 345 pages. In a note at the beginning of Among the Lost, Emiliano Monge thanks the human rights organizations that provided him with inspiration. Throughout the nove...
January 2015

Harraga by Boualem Sansal

By Boualem Sansal

Frank Wynne, tr. New York. Bloomsbury. 2015. ISBN 9781620402245 Boualem Sansal dedicates this novel to illegal immigration. The term harraga is an Arabism that literally means “path burners,...
January 2014

The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto

By Alonso Cueto

Frank Wynne, tr. London. Heinemann. 2012. ISBN 9780434019410 The Spanish edition of Alonso Cueto’s The Blue Hour was awarded the coveted Premio Herralde de Novela when it was first published...