The Paper House - Softcover

Carlos Maria Dominguez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1068209739 ISBN 13: 9781068209734

Publisher: Thousand Horsemen Press, 2026

Synopsis

On a spring day in 1998, literature professor Bluma Lennon buys a used copy of Emily Dickinson’s poems from a Soho bookshop. Moments after she starts reading it, she’s struck by a car on a street corner and killed. After her funeral, one of her colleagues–the book’s narrator–receives a package addressed to Bluma: a broken-spined old copy of Conrad’s The Shadow-Line, inscribed with her own dedication. Intrigued, he sets off on a quest that leads him to Buenos Aires, searching for clues about Carlos Brauer, a devoted book collector, and his mysterious connection to Bluma.
Already a worldwide classic in its genre, The Paper House is a venture beyond our shadow lines, and what we fear to leave behind to cross them.

About this title

About the Authors

Carlos Maria Dominguez was born on April 23, 1955, in Buenos Aires. He has contributed as a literary critic for the weekly newspapers Brecha and Búsqueda, and for the arts and culture supplement of the daily newspaper El País. In addition to literary criticism, he has written in many genres, including plays, biographies, travelogues, memoirs, short stories, and novels. In 1995, he won the Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo, highly acclaimed as Uruguay’s most prestigious literary award. Domínguez’s novella, The Paper House, first published in 2002, has been translated into more than 20 languages and has become an international bestseller since then.

Nick Caistor was born in 1946. He has translated more than 40 books of fiction from Spanish, Portuguese and French, and has twice received the Premio Valle-Inclán for his translations from Spanish. As a journalist, he has presented and produced many programmes on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and has contributed to the TLS and the Guardian.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thousand Horsemen Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1068209739
• ISBN 13: 9781068209734
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 84