Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 262 pp.
ISBN: 9780062990747
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera, and his dreams… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) When this novel was first published, Dominican readers were stunned by its dark, poetic power. At last, someone had given voice to the profound sense of loss of national and personal identity felt by young Dominicans in the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Provided by publisher) Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own people. Latin American… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a State of Memory is a novelistic memoir about exile, displacement, and return. Tununa Mercado explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile: the splintering of her identity… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of his characters.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A compilation of Lorca's poetry and prose, emphasizing Lorca's notion of the duende, the "earth spirit of irrationality and death."Contents: Deep song -- Note on the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Assigned to identify Hitler's top advisor on the atomic bomb, young physicist Francis Bacon encounters a survivor of the coup attempt against Hitler before entering into a complicated relationship with a mysterious woman.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "In Spite of teh Dark Silence," presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporáneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In these renegade stories, set in Cuba during the hard times following the collapse of the Soviet Union, people go to work only to find that their jobs no longer exist. They joke and tell stories from the past, live aimlessly… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, lived a mysterious, ascetic life far from the limelight of literary circles. She has had a profound effect on those around her: Daniel, an architect and her neighbor and friend, unhappy in his… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Antonio Muñoz Molina ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel Canales, raised in the countryside, has come to Santiago to attend university and seek his fortune. He soon falls into a pattern of partying. After he unintentionally kills a man following a session of drinking, he flees… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born into a poor Spanish family in the sixteenth century, Inés leaves Spain for the New World to find her missing husband. There she discovers that he's been killed and soon begins a love affair with Pedro de Valdivia, a war hero… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A work of historical fiction chronicles the brave deeds and passionate loves of a spirited woman who journeyed to the New World and helped found a nation.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born into a poor Spanish family in the sixteenth century, Inés leaves Spain for the New World to find her missing husband. There she discovers that he's been killed and soon begins a love affair with Pedro de Valdivia, a war hero… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Two narratives twine through this superb novel: one introduces Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great passion, Inez Prada, a red-haired Mexican diva; the other is a mysterious telling of the first… read more