Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The severed head of Josuãe Nadal, floating in the Pacific Ocean off the shore of Mexico, remembers his life, friends, enemies, and lovers, and his involvement in the drug trade and the corruption frequently encountered in his… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Before his death in 2000, Rafael Perez Estrada was one of contemporary Spain's most imaginative and unique writers. He created a body of work that often defies classification, crafting fantastic realities from myth, fable, and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Charting his childhood before the Mexican Revolution through his years in a Europe immersed in the Bolshevik revolution, this vivid portrait offers a thorough examination of Diego Rivera's creative and intellectual evolution.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Between 1936 and 1939, a civil war raged across Spain. When fascist dictator Francisco Franco declared victory, he began to persecute everyone who had once opposed him. Spain became a country of secrets, where anyone who was… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) One Saturday night a bankrupt bachelor in his sixties and his mother dine with a wealthy friend. They discuss their endlessly connected neighbors. They talk about a mysterious pit that opened up one day, and the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Testifying to the squalor and grit of contemporary Cuba, Pedro Juan Gutierrez's novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former journalist now living from hand to mouth, half disgusted and half fascinated… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, this picaresque novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former Cuban journalist living from hand to mouth in the squalor of contemporary… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In a city riddled with conflict and no longer tolerant of misfits, the trio find solace in one another and in the dilapidated theater that shelters them, as well as joy in their growing ability to entertain people with their… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Distant Relations begins in the elegant Automobile club de France as an elderly Count tells a story to the unnamed narrator. But the book does not remain here in the cafe, nor even in France. Instead, as the Count speaks, the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In this hardboiled fiction for dog lovers and lovers of dog mysteries, detective Petra Delicado and her maladroit sidekick, Garzon, investigate the murder of a tramp whose only friend is a mongrel dog named "Fright." One murder… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands, this gritty debut is a brutal portrait of girlhood and the story of a devotion that festers into untenable desire over the course of one hot summer.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents the classic early 17th century Spanish novel of chivalry and abiding optimism, depicting the exploits of a knight who attempts to bring justice and truth to the world.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Widely regarded as the first modern novel, Miguel de Cervantes's literary masterwork chronicles the exploits of noble knight-errant Don Quixote of la Mancha and his squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel throughout sixteenth-… read more