Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ten stories complete this collection of emotionally charged characters connected through a complex interweaving of repeated themes. Their tales include the humorous dynamics of a tour group in Italy; the haunting reality of a man… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "On Captivity" is the first translation into English of "Del Cautiverio," Manuel Ciges Aparicio's account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabana fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98). Ciges… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English translation of the self-proclaimed 'Viscount' Emilio Lascano Tegui--a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right --On Elegance While Sleeping is the macabre novel, part… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The novel "opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain--a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of defeat, debt, and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Once Upon a Time (Bomb) is a memoir of a young boy growing up in El Salvador. It tells the story of Alfonso Duque the Thirteenth, a youngster from a poverty-stricken family and a budding poet. Surrounded by hovering women -… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One Hundred Bottles, with its intersecting characters and unresolved whodunits, can be read as a murder mystery. But it's really a survivor's story. In a voice that blends gossip, storytelling, and literature, Zthe vivacious… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Probably García Márquez finest and most famous work. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the story of the fictional Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement of a Nobel Prize winning career. The novel tells the story… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Identical twin spinsters, Gloria and Constitución Gamal, enjoy their successful tailoring business in rural Mexico and take particular thrills in confusing people. When a new suitor arrives, one sister decides she wants all the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Grieving the loss of her husband and child, Alicia is haunted by surreal nighmares that start to appear in her waking world, a situation that causes her to question her sanity and the sincerity of her support network.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mr. Optimus Oloop is a Finnish statistician living in Buenos Aires. His life runs according to a methodical and rigid schedule, with everything - from his meals down to his visits to the city brothels - timed to the minute.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The ten writers in this volume rose to prominence in the last decade of the twentieth century. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba underwent a drastic economic contraction that brought about an explosion of feminine… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Operation Pedro Pan opened the door to the United States for more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied Cuban children. How did this come to be called Operation Pedro Pan? It was important from the very beginning that we in Miami… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) 'Was it an intuition that made me select -- I think at the beginning of my adolescence – a form of approach to life linked to English literature through Shakespeare? And can one talk in this case of literature? I think not, I… read more