Join author Javier Sinay and Ilan Stavans, Publisher of Restless Books, at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA to celebrate the launch Sinay’s gripping new book: The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America.
This is a free, in-person event. Register here to secure your spot!
When: April 5 at 7pm EST
Where: Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College St, South Hadley MA 01075
Javier Sinay is a writer and journalist based in Buenos Aires. His books include Camino al este, Cuba Stone (coauthored), and Sangre joven, which won the Premio Rodolfo Walsh of the Semana Negra de Gijón, Spain. In 2015 he won the Premio de la Fundación Gabo/former FNPI for his story “Rápido. Furioso. Muerto” (Fast. Furious. Dead) published in Rolling Stone. The Murders of Moisés Ville is his first book in English. Visit loscrimenesdemoisesville.com and javiersinay.com to learn more about The Murders of Moisés Ville and Sinay’s other works.
Ilan Stavans is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic’s Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast."