Join me for a lunchtime zoom with the wonderful novelist and translator behind The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpí, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia (Open Letter Books). Hosted by the good people at Exile in Bookville.

I love this book. It’s full of hijinks, japes both highbrow and lowbrow, and more invention than Xerox PARC. Imagine a Charlie Kaufman reboot of Quixote and you’re close.

Max Besora holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Barcelona. As a writer he has published the novels Vulcano (2011), The Marvelous Technique: a campus novel (2014), The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpi, Conquistador and Founder of Catalonia (2017) which received the 2018 City of Barcelona Prize for Catalan Literature, the music essay Trapology (2018), co-written with Borja Bagunyà, and the crime novel The Fake Muse (2020).

Mara Faye Lethem is an award-winning translator and author of A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Small (Antibookclub, 2020). She recently translated Max Besora’s novel The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpi. She lives in Barcelona and Brooklyn, and is currently translating When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà.

The event will be streamed through Zoom and broadcast on Exile in Bookville’s site and Facebook page. More details here.