Summary/Reviews: () Like the rhythm of the chachacha, the three short stories in this collection are marked by repetition and contrast. They all begin with the same scene, but each is the genesis of a different love story corresponding to three distinct… read more
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) Three narrators from different historical eras are each engaged in preserving history in Carmen Boullosa's Heavens on Earth. As her narrators sense and interact with each other over time and space, Boullosa challenges the primacy… 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) Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the… read more