Winner of the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation
Jose Donoso was the leading Chilean representative of the Latin American "Boom" of the sixties and seventies that included Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Manuel Puig, among others. Written as a draft in 1973, set aside, and forgotten, The Lizard's Tale was discovered among Donoso's papers at Princeton University by his daughter after his death. Edited for publication by critic and poet Julio Ortega, it was published posthumously in Spanish under the title Lagartija sin cola in...