Juan Emar 
Yesterday 

In San Agustín de Tango, you can never be sure what’s waiting around the corner.Over the course of a single day – the day before today – the hero of this novel and his adored wife embark on a journey through the absurd and the surreal, encountering a choir of monkeys and a carnivorous ostrich, travelling from the studio of an artist obsessed with the colour green to the waistcoat pocket of a pot-bellied man.All the while, the tolling of the bell in the city square pushes their whirlwind adventure towards its fateful conclusion…A brilliant and bizarre work from an overlooked great of 20th century Chilean literature, in English translation for the first time and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra.

Sobre el autor

Megan Mc Dowell first discovered Juan Emar as a student in Chile. Now a renowned translator from Spanish, she has translated many of the most important contemporary writers from Latin America, including Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enriquez, Alejandro Zambra and Carlos Fonseca. She is the recipient of a 2020 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been short- or long-listed for the International Booker Prize four times. Her translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, the Atlantic, and Harper’s. She lives in Santiago, Chile.