
Fate
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Reviews / Votes
"A moving testament to the beauty and banality of human relationships." -Publishers Weekly"A masterpiece that refuses to stay still." -Culture Trip
"Fate could be likened to a pointillist painting by Seurat, with each dab of colour and each descriptive passage contributing to what is finally a beautifully structured and brilliantly shimmering whole." -New York Magazine (The Strategist UK)
"In the realm of fiction, an author has total authority over their characters, and they can inject interactions with meaning and pattern-play in a way therapists warn us not to in our day to day lives. It takes a particular level of craftsmanship to do this at the level of the sentence, with the effortlessness that Consiglio seamlessly achieves, and to sweep a reader so tenderly into the progress." -White Review
"A muted and unhurried novel that insists on the validity of the imperfect present." -Kirkus
"The beauty of this novel...is that it provides no answers, but many questions. It can be reflected upon, re-read, and reconsidered." -BookBlast
"The language of Fate has teeth and claws." -Books and Bao
"Fate is a rich tapestry of language, a sharp depiction of the vagaries of fate and a thoughtful meditation on the human condition." -The Monthly Booking
"Consiglio's writing aches with poetry through its attention and complexity." -The Skinny
"Packed full of sensuality and written in fresh, candid prose." -The Quietus
Praise for Jorge Consiglio
"Employing a language that is sharp, concise and visceral, it proves his talent as a natural storyteller and as a social chronicler and poet of some refinement." -Morning Star
"There is a timeless quality to Consiglio's prose...a storyteller of rare ingenuity." -Splice
"His stories are told with dispassionate realism while being varnished with a surrealist gloss, creating his own in-between style...Occasional poetic turns reminiscent of Pablo Neruda erupt within the narrative." -Culture Trip
"[Consiglio] carves out a singular space by focusing on characters who do not quite have a place of their own." -Full Stop
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Originally from Buenos Aires and now based in Edinburgh, Carolina Orloff is an experienced translator and researcher in Latin American literature. In 2016, Carolina co-founded Charco Press, where she acts as Publishing Director and Chief Editor. She is also the co-translator of Ariana Harwicz's novels Die, My Love , Feebleminded and Tender , and of Jorge Consiglio's Fate .
Fionn Petch is a Scottish-born translator working from Spanish, Italian and French into English. He lived in Mexico City for 12 years, where he completed a PhD in Philosophy at the UNAM. His translations of Latin American literature for Charco Press have been widely acclaimed. Fireflies by Luis Sagasti was shortlisted for the Translators' Association First Translation Award 2018. The Distance Between Us by Renato Cisneros received an English PEN Award in 2018. A Musical Offering , also by Luis Sagasti, was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021 and won the Society of Authors Premio Valle Inclan 2021 for best translation from Spanish. He now lives in Berlin.
Content
- Intro
- Fate
- Author's Note
- Copyright
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