One Out of Two. This item is unavailable.One Out of Two

The most distinctive thing about the Gamal sisters is that they are, essentially, indistinguishable. The twin spinsters spend their time trying to mask any perceptible differences they have while working hard at their tailoring business in northern Mexico. When a suitor enters the picture, one of the sisters decides that she doesn't want to live a life without romance. Suffused with the tension between our desire for romance and our desire for independence, One Out of Two is a giddy comic fable by one of the giants of contemporary Latin American literature.

Daniel Sada was born in Mexicali, Mexico, in 1953, and died in 2011, in Mexico City. Considered by many to be the boldest and most innovative writer in Spanish of his generation, he published eight volumes of short stories, nine novels, and three volumes of poetry. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Herralde Prize for Almost Never. Just hours before he died, he was awarded Mexico's most prestigious literary award, the National Prize for Arts and Sciences for Literature. Katherine Silver is an award-winning translator whose recent translations include works by Horacio Castellanos Moya and C�sar Aira. She is the director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and lives in Berkeley, California.