The Scale of Maps

Reviews/interviews in: The Bloomsbury Review, New Yorker, New York Times, Latino Review of Books, The Paris Review, Publishers Weekly, World Literature Today, PRI's World Books Excerpts in literary translation journals such as: TWO LINES, Metamorphoses (Smith College), Circumference (Columbia University), Conjunctions (Bard College) Online publicity in Words Without Borders, Conversational Reading, Three Percent (University of Rochester), The Rumpus, World Literature Today, Bookslut Academic course adoption for contemporary Spanish fiction courses. Exhibit at AWP, MLA. Advertise in CBSD's Poetry and Literature catalog. For his last book (Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poetry of David Huerta), translator Mark Schafer completed a multi-city national tour funded by various Mexican Consulates and Mexican Cultural Institutes, and universities including Swarthmore College, Boston University, and Georgetown University. Potential for similar tour for The Scale of Maps. Promotion on translator's website, http://www.marksonpaper.us/

A novel and its protagonist create one another, in a tale strung between the work of Cervantes and Nabokov.Sergio Prim is a staid, middle-aged geographer. The romantic advances of Brezo Varela, a lively young woman who shares his profession, induce a series of terrifying hallucinations from which he attempts to seek refuge by immersing himself in the quest to map a place in which love never results in disillusionment. A lyrical examination of language, imagination, and desire. Belen Gopegui burst onto the Spanish literary scene in 1993, bowling over critics with her masterful debut La escala de los mapas (The Scale of Maps), which was hailed as a masterpiece. This is her first work translated into English.