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The Eye of CybeleBy Daniel Chavarría Translated by Carlos Lopez Fiction | Hardcover
The Eye of Cybele has been selected for the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award's Long List! Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarría has won a 2001 Edgar Award!!! "Daniel Chavarría has long been recognized as one of Latin America's finest writer's . . ." --Edgar Award-winning author William Heffernan Click here to read the first two chapters of The Eye of Cybele. Click here to see the new and cheaper paperback edition of The Eye of Cybele. Daniel Chavarría's most celebrated novel to date, The Eye of Cybele is the internationally acclaimed author¹s second book in English translation. The Eye is a tremendous literary accomplishment, an epic mystery set in ancient Greece in the time of Pericles. A mad priest and an entrancing whore join the likes of Alcibiades and Socrates in a quest for a lost jewel--the Dyndimenian Eye. Chavarría¹s knowledge of Greek history and command of language guide him masterfully through this stunning and highly original work. The novel has already won four literary awards around the world: Premio Ennio Flaiano Award (Italy); Premio Internacional Planeta-Joaquín Mortiz Award (Mexico); Premio del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura Award (Uruguay) and Premio de la Crítica Award (Cuba). Daniel Chavarría is a Uruguayan writer whose novels, short stories, literary journalism, and screenplays have reached audiences across Latin America and Europe. For years, he was a professor of Latin, Greek, and Classical Literature. In 2001, Akashic published Adios Muchachos, Chavarría¹s first book in English translation. Critical praise for Daniel Chavarría: "Out of the mystery wrapped in an enigma that, over the last forty years, has been Cuba for the US, comes a voice so cheerful, a face so laughing, and a mind so deviously optimistic that we can only hope this is but the beginning of a flood of Latin America¹s indomitable novelists, playwrights, storytellers. Welcome, Daniel Chavarría." --Donald Westlake, author of Trust Me on This "I recommend that we all do as Fidel likely does: light up a cigar and turn Chavarría¹s pages, with pleasure." --Thomas Adcock, author of Grief Street |
