José Revueltas - The Hole

Copyright © 1969 by José Revueltas

Translation copyright © 2018 by Amanda Hopkinson & Sophie Hughes

Introduction copyright © 2018 by Álvaro Enrigue

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The Hole was originally published as El apando in 1969 by Ediciones Era, Mexico.

First published as New Directions Paperbook 1426 in 2018

Manufactured in the United States of America

Design by Erik Rieselbach

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Revueltas, Josâe, 1914–1976, author. | Enrigue, Alvaro, 1969– writer of introduction. | Hopkinson, Amanda, 1948– translator. | Hughes, Sophie (Sophie Elizabeth), 1986– translator.

Title: The hole / by Jose Revueltas ; introduction by Alvaro Enrigue ; translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Sophie Hughes.

Other titles: Apando. English

Description: New York, NY : New Directions Publishing, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018021047 (print) | LCCN 2018024712 (ebook) | ISBN 9780811227797 (ebook) | isbn 9780811227780 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCsh: Prisoners—Fiction. | Drug addiction—Fiction. | Mexico—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PQ7297.R383 (ebook) | LCC PQ7297.R383 A813 2018 (print) | DDC 863/.64—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018021047

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