Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A historical and satirical novel whose principal character is an American adventurer who suddenly turns up in a Maya community in the highlands of western Guatemala. Apart from the impact that he causes in the community by his… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long before "The Sexual Life of Catherine M", Grandes was dazzling the literary world with this highly charged novel about a young woman embarking on a series of sexual adventures. Lulu's journey begins with the night she loses… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Under Enver Hoxha's dictatorship Albania was the most isolated and paranoid European state, where life could only be lived in complicity with its tyranny, or in clandestine resistance. The villa of state hero Zanum Radjik on… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The Algarrobos Quartet is a series of four short, enigmatic novels set on the northern pampas of Argentina. In the town of Algarrobos, the rules of the game are mysterious, and terrible events occur without warning. Unexpected… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A fiendishly fun and charming novel echoing the quirky works of brilliant director Pedro Almodóvar, The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman follows an uptight Englishman who is sent to Madrid to close a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Long, long ago, ages before the Tooth Fairy, there lived in Spain a special kind of mouse--a Tooth Mouse--who collected children's lost baby teeth. Here you will discover the amazing and true story of one of them, Tooth Mouse… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated into English by Lucia Graves.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martín wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martin wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who had met and forgotten the playboy executive after their single chance encounter?… read more
Publisher: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 209 pp.
ISBN: 9780802121608
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A renowned psycholinguist delves into the confession of a once-dear friend, a rare book collector who is incarcerated in a mental institution for killing his fiancée, told to him in bits of novels, fables, and historical… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) As the novel opens Pierre is a boy, raised by a wealthy family of Belgian winemakers. Precociously curious about the opposite sex - particularly the intimate garments he finds drying in the laundry room - he is initiated into… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town. Ismail, the professor, is a retired teacher in a small Colombian town where he passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In ancient Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher Diagoras is convinced the pupil's death is not as accidental as it appears, and asks the famous Heracles Pontor, the "Decipherer of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The discovery of a South American dictator's rotting corpse in the deserted tangle of his crumbling palace prompts a search through his past and a chronicle of his progression from popular, beloved, unafraid ruler to isolated,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The general is dead. The Patriarch is gone--succumbing finally to an immense old age (some say he was 107 when he died; others claim he was 232). Once he was a popular figure, a man who loved the poor of his sun-drenched… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San… read more