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Praise for The Shadow of the Mammoth:

“Morábito marries his unencumbered prose to his eye for the absurd, casting even the most unassuming characters and situations in new, unpredictable lights.” —The New Yorker, Best Books of the Year

“Extremely imaginative stories that resonate with the agile surrealism of Borges and Cortázar…The thought-provoking, heartwarming, and fanciful stories in The Shadow of the Mammoth sustain interest throughout.” —Arts Fuse

“Outstanding…impressively examines elliptical attempts to connect that end in success, failure, but more often something in between.” —Shelf Awareness

Fabio Morabito was born in Egypt to an Italian family. When he was fifteen, his family relocated from Milan to Mexico City, and he has written all his work in Spanish ever since. He has published five books of poetry, five short-story collections, one book of essays, and two novels. He has translated into Spanish the work of many great Italian poets of the twentieth century, including Eugenio Montale and Patrizia Cavalli. Morabito has been awarded numerous prizes, most recently the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, Mexico’s highest literary award, for Home Reading Service. His short-story collections include Mothers and Dogs and The Shadow of the Mammoth. He lives in Mexico City.

Curtis Bauer is a poet and translator of prose and poetry from Spanish. He is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a Banff International Literary Translation Centre fellowship. His translation of Jeannette Clariond’s Image of Absence won the International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction Book Translation from Spanish to English. Bauer teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Texas Tech University.

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