Restless Books at the Brooklyn Book Festival
- Cadman Plaza Park Brooklyn, NY 11201 United States (map)
On Sunday September 18, Restless Books will be at one of our favorite literary events, the Brooklyn Book Festival. Come find us at Table 334, amid a great literary neighborhood: New Directions, Europa, The Nation, Archipelago, Center for Black Literature, Center for Fiction.
A few of our authors will be at the festival as well: Yoss, author of Super Extra Grande and A Planet for Rent, Tash Aw, author of The Face: Strangers on a Pier, and Deepak Unnikrishnan, author of Temporary People. All three will be signing books and galleys at our booth. Yoss and Tash will also take part in two panels: at 4:00pm, Yoss will join Mexican author Álvaro Enrigue and Chilean Carlos Labbé in a panel moderated by noted Bolaño translator Natasha Wimmer called "From Sci-Fi to Meta (and Heavy Metal): New Dimensions in Latin American Fiction," and at 5:00pm, Tash will join authors Nicole Dennis-Benn and Jonas Hassen Khemiri at an event called "On Identity and Sexuality."
Authors will be signing books and galleys at the Restless booth: Deepak Unnikrishnan, winner of the Prize for New Immigrant Writing, at 11:00 am; Yoss at 1:00 pm; and Tash Aw at 3:00 pm.
Plus, don't forget to check out Yoss's Brooklyn BKBF Bookends event co-hosted by BOMB Magazine—"Cuban Heavy Metal Sci-Fi"—at Issue Project Room on Thursday, September 15.
The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and international literary stars and emerging authors. One of America’s premier book festivals, this hip, smart diverse gathering attracts thousands of book lovers of all ages to enjoy authors and the festival’s lively literary marketplace.
When: Sunday, September 18, 2016
Where: Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn, NY 11201
by Yoss
Translated from the Spanish by David Frye
“A Planet for Rent is the English-language debut of Yoss, one of Cuba's most lauded writers of science fiction. Translated by David Frye, these linked stories craft a picture of a dystopian future: Aliens called xenoids have invaded planet Earth, and people are looking to flee the economically and socially bankrupt remains of human civilization. Yoss' smart and entertaining novel tackles themes like prostitution, immigration and political corruption. Ultimately, it serves as an empathetic yet impassioned metaphor for modern-day Cuba, where the struggle for power has complicated every facet of society”
—NPR, Best Books of 2015
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060365
Publication date: Jun 23, 2015
By Yoss
Translated from the Spanish by David Frye
Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of 2016 • 2017 Philip K. Dick Award Finalist • Best Translated Book Award Longlist • Barnes and Noble Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2016
“Intergalactic space travel meets outrageous, biting satire in Super Extra Grande…. Its author [Yoss] is one of the most celebrated — and controversial — Cuban writers of science fiction…. Reminiscent of Douglas Adams — but even more so, the satire of Rabelais and Swift.”
—The Washington Post
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060563
Publication date: Jun 7, 2016
By Yoss
Translated from the Spanish by David Frye
“Yoss (Super Extra Grande) is an eminent Cuban SF writer who also fronts a heavy metal band; his iconoclastic spirit and rock-and-roll aesthetic are on full ingenious display in this daring, rollicking, and joyous novel…. This extended dirty joke is also an impressive science fiction novel with much to say about sex, culture, and what it means to be alien.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061867
Publication date: Jul 17, 2018
By Yoss
Translated from the Spanish by David Frye
The 2021 Science Fiction and Fantasy Rosetta Awards Shortlist
From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062468
Publication date: Jul 7, 2020
By Miguel Collazo
Translated from the Spanish by David Frye
Introduction by Yoss
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060204
Publication date: Jul 7, 2020
eBook available from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Kobo
de Miguel Collazo
introducción por Yoss
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060402
Publication date: July 7, 2020
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de Yoss
«José Miguel Sánchez es el autor cubano de ciencia ficción más premiado, el que más prestigio tiene en el mainstream sin dejar de cultivar este género y el único que vive de su pluma entre los residentes en la Isla».
—Cuenta Regresiva
Reseñado en The New York Times Magazine
eBook • ISBN: 9781632060297
Fecha de publicación: 30 Sep 2014
eBook disponible de: Amazon | iTunes | Kobo
Audio libre disponible de: Audible
Get all four books by Cuba’s greatest science fiction rock star—Yoss!—for just $45:
by Tash Aw
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times' Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose
“Tash Aw’s The Face, so wise and so well done, made me wish it were much longer than it is.”
—Chimamanda Adichie, The Guardian's Best Books of 2016
From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060457
Publication date: Mar 1, 2016
By Deepak Unnikrishnan
Winner of The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Best Books of 2017: Booklist, Kirkus, San Francisco Chronicle
"Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.… An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation."
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061423
Publication date: Mar 14, 2017
Edited by Ilan Stavans
In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020