Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Then: It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the England of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tomas Cruz swore he would never be like his father, an abusive cocaine junky whose gangland exploits are notorious throughout the underbelly of northern Argentina. When Samuel Cruz is sentenced to thirteen years in prison, he… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this collection some of which appear in English for the first time will take you on an odyssey… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Think Cuba, you're likely to think bearded revolutionaries in fatigues. Salsa. Sugar cane. Rock 'n' roll, zombies, drugs -- anomie and angst -- do not generally figure in our mental images of a country that's assumed an outsized… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The tragicomical misadventures of an opinionated Cuban youth on a bi-cultural quicksand path in search for missing principles and spiritual values. Satirical, irreverently shocking and outrageously funny!
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A bilingual anthology of twelve short stories, many of which appeared in the 1960s in the English-language magazine "The San Juan Review". Written by six of Puerto Rico's leading writers, it has themes that vary in time from the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Indian revolts in the province of Chimborazo Ecuador destroyed the family and goods of the rancher Juan Domingo Orosco, as revenge for the maltreatment and abuse of the savages. After this unfortunate event, Orosco converted… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Indian revolts in the province of Chimborazo Ecuador destroyed the family and goods of the rancher Juan Domingo Orosco, as revenge for the maltreatment and abuse of the savages. After this unfortunate event, Orosco converted… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) By the author of "The Obscene Bird of the Night", "Sacred Families" and "A House in the Country", this is a story of the tragic love between an upper-middle-class radical woman and her lover who has returned after a career as a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Havana, 1957. On the same day that the mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Javier Marias begins Dark Back of Time with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--The real-life… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents the "apocryphal autobiography" of author Luisa Valenzuela, who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from the ten years she lived in New York City, exploring her "dark desires," and discussing sexual fulfillment, human… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Luisa Valenzuela ; translated by Susan E. Clark.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.