Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An extremely slender, sad tale by Bellatin recounts a gay man's reflections on the waning days of sexual excess and the specter of death wrought by AIDS, though here AIDS is a mysterious, nameless plague. Formerly a stylist in a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Thanks to her wealthy and well-connected family, twenty-six-year-old Marta is used to getting whatever she wants. And what she wants is a good time. That is, until her father's wife--the woman who raised her--becomes ill.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Part bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, Before tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her captive as a girl. This powerful exploration of the path… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Belated Declaration of Love to Séraphine Louis brings together a panoramic survey of Venezuelan narrative, the original Spanish text of eight short stories by the late writer, with full English translation, and a focused… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Between Two Silences / Entre Dos Silencios is a book of remarkable short stories by the great Dominican writer Hilma Contreras. These short stories (some very short) are often mysterious and quirky, with a shimmer of heat and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Beyond the Island recreates the Galapagos Islands as a paradise poised between destruction and redemption, its inhabitants as varied as an Elizabethan pirate, an expert on the prickly pear, and a baker infatuated with a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The universal dilemma between truth and survival pulsates in the plot that takes place at the end of the 1980s in the city of Havana. Boris, a young lieutenant in Cuban counter-intelligence meets Sebastián, who is bringing as a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human… read more
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
ISBN: 9781419744082
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A little girl and her abuela tend to an injured bird they find in the snow, allowing it to fly around the living room until it is ready to be released.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The journalist named no names. He claimed nothing false. He was not a radical, not a communist, less interested in politics than in writing itself. Nevertheless, one sentence, "The real cause of this crisis is corruption at… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Private detective Sunny Pascal is hired to babysit the cast of a movie filming in Puerto Vallarta, but when someone is shot down by a gun belonging to one of the cast members, he has to keep them out of jail while he solves the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) New York City. Three A.M. The present. A man emerges from a building, a revolver in his pocket. Upstairs, in her apartment, alone in her bed, lies a woman - an actress the man met for the first time earlier that evening. She… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Luisa Valenzuela ; translation by Toby Talbot.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman. Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Set in the bullfighting world of Valencia, Spain, the story follows the rise and fall of Juan Gallardo, a talented but impoverished young man who becomes a famous matador. Gallardo's success brings him wealth, fame, and the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This novel follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as the time of fear" in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the armed… read more