Two Sherpas [Paperback]

Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move.

A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpas kneel at the edge, stand, exchange the odd word, waiting for him to move, to make a decision, to descend. In those minutes, the world opens up to Kathmandu, a sun-bleached beach town on another continent, and the pages of Julius Caesar. Mountaineering, colonialism, obligationin Sebasti?n Mart?nez Daniell's effortless prose each breath is crystalline, and the whole world is visible from here.

Sebasti?n Mart?nez Daniellwas born in Buenos Aires in 1971. He has published four novels,Semana(Week, 2004),Precipitaciones aisladas(Isolated Showers, 2010),Dos Sherpas(Two Sherpas, 2018) andDesintegraci?n en una caja(2024; forthcoming from Charco Press asDisintegration in a Box). His work has also been included in anthologies such asBuenos Aires / Escala 1:1(2007),Uno a uno(2008),Hablar de m?(2010) andGolpes.Relatos y memorias de la dictadura(2016). He is one of the co-founders of the independent publisher Entrop?a and is a literature lecturer at the National University of the Arts in Buenos Aires.

Jennifer Croftwon a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel?The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir?Homesickand the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuks?Flights.She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a PhD from Northwestern University and is a Presidential Professor at the University of Tulsa.

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