A Writer’s Struggle, A Relationship, and a Cashier Converge in a Novel

WOMAN FROM URUGUAY by Pedro MairalTranslated by Jennifer Croft Written by Argentine author Pedro Mairal, “Woman from Uruguay” will be comfortingly familiar to Anglophone readers. Told by a Mairal-esqeue novelist whose thoughts do not tend to distract from his personal troubles and obsessions, this book turns out to be a work of autofiction. The tone …