Tag: David Unger
Carlos Franz: Normalcy without Liberty
May 2013Life in East Germany on display in a strange Berlin museum.
The Price of Escape
March 2011As soon as the maid was out of earshot, his uncle said: “I’ve paid a lot to get you a visa for Panama and Guatemala. At another time, this would be called a bribe. It may take a month, maybe more, to get them.”
Ghostwriting Gabo
November 2007Guatemalan-born writer and translator David Unger recounts the chance encounter that led to the job of a lifetime: ghostwriter for Gabriel García Márquez
The Magic Box
By Anna Lidia Vega Serova, translated from the Spanish by David UngerMay 2005
Her parents were naked, one on top of the other. Their eyes were closed, their faces contorted; they were breathing loudly and moaning. She watched them for a few moments, terrified; then she walked quietly back to her cot and covered her face with the pillow.
