James was born and raised in Colombia. After majoring in advertising in Bogotá, he moved to New York to learn English. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. He lives in Barcelona.
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Little Foxes Took Up Matches (2022)
Katya Kazbek
"Absorbing and unremittingly honest, Little Foxes Took Up Matches is a magnificent journey with a thunderous effect that both injures and mends. Kazbek writes this fascinating story with eloquence, human understanding and compassion. She illuminates post-soviet Russia's contradictions in prose as undeflected and fearless as the contradictions themselves are piercing and violent. It's nothing short of exceptional that anyone can write original, brilliant, and witty prose in a language not their own; we marvel at a Vladimir Nabokov, a Joseph Conrad, a Jhumpa Lahiri, a Katya Kazbek."
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