Translation of the classic novel by Albert Camus. A rewriting of La Mort heureuse (1936-38), L’Etranger was published in 1941, in the middle of the Nazi occupation of France. Hailed by critics, including Jean Paul Sartre, as a masterpiece, this novel has remained a work with broad appeal. This edition includes an introduction—written by José de Piérola—that presents Camus' times and ideas, in particular his brand of Existentialism. Meant to bring this classic to a younger audience, this translation also includes a chronology.

This story is based on an ancient Andean myth. The “pishtaco” is usually a fair complexioned, blue-eyed man waiting on desolate roads to kidnap and kill his victims in order to extract their fat. This centuries-old myth was probably created as a way of coping with the economic and labor relationships imposed by the Spaniards upon their arrival in the Peruvian Andes in the sixteenth century. Nevertheless, it is still widely circulated to the present day: every Andean town has a pishtaco story to tell. In this retelling of the myth, two twelve-year old friends investigate a man who, to their minds, could be responsible for the dead peasants showing up around a small Andean town. Complicating matters, the insurgency, who has been waging a war for almost ten years, becomes another lethal presence in town. These two factors, the myth and the reality of war, intermingle in the imagination of the two young characters. The book was published by Grupo Editorial Norma in their series “Torre Amarilla” for young readers, and presented in the International Book Fair in Lima.

This novel is about a child who is pressured by his father to write a book of poetry which is published when the boy is ten years old. Thanks to a chance encounter, the book becomes a best seller, a fact that places the boy in the midst of adult pressures he cannot handle. As a result, he loses his mind and kills his mother and grandfather. The story is told from the point of view of the confused young man the boy has become after fourteen years of living in a mental institution. Summa Caligrámatica also explores the relationship between memory and identity, and between knowledge and moral duty. This novel, which required extensive research, including a visit to “Hospital Larco Herrera,” an emblematic hospital for mental illnesses in Peru, was published in 2009 by Grupo Editorial Norma, and was presented at the “Feria del Libro Ricardo Palma,” one of the most important book fairs in Peru.

This novel tells the story of two close friends who find themselves at the opposite sides of the virtual Civil War in Peru during the 1980s and early 1990s. One of the friends, member of Red Vanguard (Shining Path), kills the father of the other friend, triggering a pursuit which ends in another death. This novel is the second installment of an in-progress trilogy about the decades of political violence in Peru. Rather than giving a partial account, or retelling the usual story in which good fights evil, this novel tries to render the complex network of relationships, unstable alliances and mechanisms of power in Peru.

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This is a young adult novel about the invention of chess. Set in Iran at the beginning of the seventh century, it is based on some of the extant traditions about the invention of chess, but incorporates original research and complicates the story by placing a female character in the leading role and by setting it in a city where four religious traditions coexist in harmony, albeit for a short time.