The Ravine (El Barranco) (S U N Y Series, Women Writers in Translation) - Tapa blanda

"In her translation, Carol Maier manages to achieve a lyrical environment comparable to the original through the use of short sentences, absence of verbs, anguished images, and alliterative language ... The Ravine is a necessary addition to the field of Spanish and Transatlantic literature and constitutes a timely contribution to the current wave of historical, cultural, and literary production that rewrites the history of the Spanish Civil War." -- Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas

"Maier provides not only a sensitive, smooth translation but also an informative afterword. A pleasure to read..." -- CHOICE

"...a surreal portrayal of the effects of war--not unlike Mohammed Dib's great wartime story of Algeria, Who Remembers the Sea." -- Rain Taxi

"Profoundly psychological, Tejera's sparse prose is well served by Carol Maier's superb translation." -- Barbara Probst Solomon, author of Arriving Where We Started

"Though written in the 1950s, its taut description of a civil war's assault on the everyday certainties of childhood rings most contemporary." -- Peter Bush, former Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation and translator of Juan Goytisolo's Forbidden Territory and Nuria Amat's Queen Cocaine

"Those who cannot read Spanish are fortunate to have access at last to this powerful translation of Nivaria Tejera's most famous novel." -- Betsy Hearne, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign