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Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher |
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Set primarily in modern-day Buenos Aires, the stories are about the relationships, often discomforting, between lovers, daughters and their mothers and fathers, divorced parents, and estranged siblings. An Orphan's Freedom is Varsavsky's first collection of short stories.
Varsavsky's writing is direct and unadorned, but its simplicity is deceptive: she captures with precision the nuances in the ways people come together and fall apart. In the title story, the narrator recalls a recurring dream in which her father is still alive. He appears again and again, though he is always just out of reach or behaves in a way that puzzles and disappoints the narrator, and a sense of unease settles in as the reader observes how she yearns for her dead father in her dreams.
Varsavsky's fiction has been mentioned alongside that of numerous Argentinian authors including Iosi Havilio and Carlos Gamerro. She has been praised for her ability to narrate contemporary Argentinian life by critics including Beatriz Sarlo and Elsa Drucaroff. The novelists David Lodge and Benjamin Kunkel have both expressed their respect for what Varsavsky is able to achieve in her short stories.
Varsavsky is the author of two novellas. Her first, Nadie alzaba la voz (Emecé, 1994), was translated into English by Anne McLean as No One Said a Word (Ontario Review Press, hardcover, 2000; Wings Press, paperback and ebook, 2013 ). El resto de su vida (2007) was published in Argentina by Mondadori. In addition to writing fiction, Varsavsky works as a journalist and teacher specialising in Anglo-Saxon literature. In 2015, she published Las mil caras del autor (EDUVIM), her first collection of in-depth interviews with renowned authors writing in the English language.
Varsavsky's fiction has been mentioned alongside that of numerous Argentinian authors including Iosi Havilio and Carlos Gamerro. She has been praised for her ability to narrate contemporary Argentinian life by critics including Beatriz Sarlo and Elsa Drucaroff. The novelists David Lodge and Benjamin Kunkel have both expressed their respect for what Varsavsky is able to achieve in her short stories.
Varsavsky is the author of two novellas. Her first, Nadie alzaba la voz (Emecé, 1994), was translated into English by Anne McLean as No One Said a Word (Ontario Review Press, hardcover, 2000; Wings Press, paperback and ebook, 2013 ). El resto de su vida (2007) was published in Argentina by Mondadori. In addition to writing fiction, Varsavsky works as a journalist and teacher specialising in Anglo-Saxon literature. In 2015, she published Las mil caras del autor (EDUVIM), her first collection of in-depth interviews with renowned authors writing in the English language.