Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A well-connected lawyer and his deranged wife die in a mysterious fire. Their fate, however, is much more than material for a whodunit. Murder, dictatorship, love, eroticism, torture, and the healing power of art:… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Manuel Marcos ; translated by Tracy Karl Lewis.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoy's classic observation that "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In "A Family Like Any Other," each member of the Pagan family lives… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it" -- Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) These humorous and poignant stories that illustrate everyday life in contemporary Havana will challenge the reader's assumptions about the Cuban reality. Mirta Yanez is a Havana-born poet, novelist, critic, and extraordinary… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of stories by current and former residents of Havana that relate tales of ambiguous moralities, collective cruelty, and the damage incurred by self-preservation at all costs.Contents: … read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of seventeen short stories, presented in Spanish and English, that examine the lives of Chicano men and women in the contemporary United States.Contents:He walked in and sat down -- Entró y se sentó -- Road detours… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In bursts of fiction and nonfiction, Heart of Scorpio tells the tragic story of ex-champion boxer, Antonio Cervantes (Kid Pambelé), using four distinct voices that represent the personal, family, social, and public aspects of the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A forlorn psychoanalyst; a cultural historian exploring the possibility of life after death; a middle-aged couple that schedules a rendezvous with a younger version of itself; a man who compensates for his phobia of death and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Explores the philosopher Martin Heidegger's collusion with the Nazis through a two-part letter between the fictional Dieter Müller and his son.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Publisher's description: Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events in early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Elena Poniatowska ; translated from the Spanish by Deanna Heikkinen.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Based on Josefina Borquez, a working-class woman whose difficult life spanned some of the seminal events in early-twentieth-century Mexican history, Poniatowska's Jesusa is a tough, coarse-mouthed, cantankerous character who… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Told entirely in dialog, this is a comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point and the women who drive them crazy. A complex tale of an office worker hiring a hit man to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain, Leopoldo Alas employed his satirical talent to powerful and humorous effect in fiction as well. In His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, a romantic flautist by… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel about Hitler's persecution of Polish Jews all the way to Central America, and how they fought against his plans for their destruction. The novel also reveals these immigrant's internal struggles for their personal… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the English-language debut novel of one of Mexico's most poignant writers, a man guilty of a minor offense finds himself caught between the tedium of his temperate city and the growing menace of crime there. After an accident-… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty), from the unrelentingly grim 1980s to October 2011… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an… read more