title: Severina (Rey Rosa)
text: # Severina (Rey Rosa)
  
  Severina is a novella by Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, originally published in 2011. The work is written using the first person narrative mode and is dedicated to Beatriz Zamora.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  The story is told from the point of view of a bookseller who finds himself romantically drawn to a young woman he catches stealing books from La Entretenida, the bookstore where he works.
  
  ## English translations
  
  Severina has been translated, with an introduction, into English once by Chris Andrews for Yale University Press's Margellos World Republic of Letters series.
  
  