Nothing to declare: Diana’s Book

BOOK REVIEW

NOTHING TO DECLARE: DIANA’S BOOK

Author: Teresa Ruiz Rosas From the reader report by: Alisa Newman

I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to read and recommend this novel. It is a masterfully written story as well as an insightful and compassionate look at an important global issue: sexual slavery.

As should be clear from this review, I wholeheartedly recommend this book for translation so that it can reach a wider audience. It will require a skilled literary translator to do it justice – one of the caliber of Silvia and Teresa Ruiz Rosas themselves: The author enjoys playing with language, and conveying the same spirit and richness in another language will be a challenge. However, it is one well worth taking on, and I look forward to seeing an English-language edition of this book on shelves around the world!

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Title NOTHING TO DECLARE: DIANA’S BOOK NADA QUE DECLARAR. EL LIBRO DE DIANA

Author Teresa Ruiz Rosas Genre Literature Year of publication 2015 Number of editions 1

Pages 336 ISBN 978-84-95157-82-9 Language Spanish Spanish retail price 22.90 €

Author’s biography: Teresa Ruiz Rosas was born in Arequipa, Peru in 1956. She is the daughter of a poet and an actress, and she lived surrounded by books from earliest childhood. She currently lives in Cologne, having also lived in Budapest and Barcelona. She was a professor at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau and the University of Cologne. She has received numerous awards, both for her original work as well as for her work as a translator. In 2020, she won the National Literature Prize of Peru in the category of Fiction. Her novel The Copyist was a finalist for the 12th Herralde Prize for Novel as well as the Tigre Juan Award. The reviews were very favorable. The story Behind Toledo Street was awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1999 by the Cervantes Institute of Paris and Radio France International. Nothing to Declare: Diana’s Book received an Honorable Mention at the Cope International Biennial for the Novel in Lima. Her work has been translated to German, Dutch, English, and Greek. www.teresaruizrosas.com

Synopsis: “And the silence of its dignity will be placed with a final period in burning oil colors”. In these verses by César Vallejo, verses that she’s not even sure she understands, Dianette finds the force to free herself from the bitter prison that her life in Germany has become. Once she has taken a definitive step, fortune will lead her to Silvia, another Peruvian who will help her to return to the country she came from, and where she’ll write her story, The Book of Diana. Teresa Ruiz Rosas uses intelligence, a sense of humor, and powerful expressive talent to show how the lives of these two women become entwined.

Publisher who has published: Ediciones Turpial, S.A.

Publisher: Ginger Ape Books & Films Ginger Ape Books & Films, S.L. is an independent organization with a strong cultural foundation. It was founded in 2012 for the purpose of publishing a broad selection of editorial projects. It is open to searching for new authors, themes and content, as well is the rediscovery of forgotten titles and those that have been unjustly ignored.

Publishing rights available from: 2Sicilias Reino Editorial- CIF B04734992 Miramar 3, 29016, Málaga, Málaga www.gingerapebooks.com Contact: Antonio Ruiz Almirón [2Siciliasred@gmail.com] Phone: (+34) 695 225 071

Prizes and reviews: Honorable Mention at the Cope International Bienal of the Novel, Lima, 2012.