The Pelcari Project. Cárcel de Árboles
Tiburon, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1997. 1st US Edition. Octavo, publisher's carmine cloth, spine gilt, blood red endpapers, original illustrated dust jacket.
Signed limited first US edition of Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s novella. One of the most widely read and internationally acclaimed Latin American writers of the 20th century, Rey Rosa has won numerous prizes and awards for fiction and served as literary executor to his primary English-language translator Paul Bowles. Inspired by the work of Argentinian writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Pelcari Project depicts political corruption seen through the eyes of a doctor who happens upon an experimental prison camp. While traveling in Morocco in 1980, Rey Rosa met Bowles, who became his mentor and translated his first three works into English. Rey Rosa has since translated several books by Bowles into Spanish and dedicated his first feature film to the American expat writer. Number 11 of 150 numbered hardcover copies signed by Rey Rosa and Bowles to the colophon (from a total limitation of 176). Dust jacket illustration by Leon Golub. Bilingual text in Spanish and English. Fine in unclipped dust jacket. Item #7458
$125.00