Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Mist (1914) is not a novel, but rather a Nivola, a neologism invented by Miguel de Unamuno to taunt his critics. We cannot say its a new genre, because no other author has ever written a 'Nivola.' What is certain is that… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: author: Miguel de Unamuno ; edited by Marciano Guerrero.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel that features Augusto Perez, the pampered son of a recently deceased mother; the deceitful, scheming Eugenia, whom Augusto obsessively idealizes; and, Augusto's dog Orfeo, who gives a funeral oration upon his master's… read more
Additional Information: Foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed & sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana & prescription pills. In the humanities she has discovered she is something of an anthropological curiosity - a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young Latin American author, newly successful, escapes her downward spiral of drugs and erotic detours in California only to find a fresh hell at an ultra-hip literary conference in Sweden.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York's Harlem… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A Bolaño classic. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness and unable to stop hiccuping. His wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the mesmerist Pierre Pain… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness, when his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the Mesmerist Pierre Pain. Pain, a timid bachelor, is in… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Rios takes us into the eerie existence of the painter Victor Mons, who has created a series of works titled Monstruary, a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past. We follow… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Rios takes us into the eerie existence of the painter Victor Mons, who has created a series of works titled Monstruary, a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past.
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Julián Ríos ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The narrator of Montano's Malady is a writer who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Terran scholar Rachel Monteverde journeys to Aanuk, a paradisiacal planet famous for both its beaches and the generosity and joy of life of its nomadic inhabitants. The Aanukiens are not the only people on the planet, however:… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A young Roman aristocrat, spoiled and alcoholic, must face the worst catastrophe Pompeii has ever seen: the eruption of Vesuvius.Marcus has been educated to rise to the highest levels of the Senate. Still, his thirst for… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A young Roman aristocrat, spoiled and alcoholic, must face the worst catastrophe Pompeii has ever seen: the eruption of Vesuvius.Marcus has been educated to rise to the highest levels of the Senate. Still, his thirst for… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mother Nature is certainly Emilia Pardo Bazan's greatest contribution to the Realistic/ Naturalistic Spanish novel of her time, and represents her literary powers at the very height of her career as a writer. It has been said… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mining everyday life in Mexico and abroad for psychological insight, these subtle, unsettling stories reveal new ways of looking at our world. The first story collection from prize-winning author Fabio Morábito available in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Using the death of the father as a point of departure, the novel is divided into ten chapters, a structure that is particularly effective because the chapters correspond to the ten days that begin on the Jewish New Year and end… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The crunch of a bird's wing. Abandoned by the roadside, newlywed brides scream with rage as they are caught in the headlights of a passing car. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. Unearthly and unexpected, these… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A first English-language collection of stories by the Man Booker International Prize-finalist author of Fever Dream incorporates themes of high suspense, psychological tension, unearthly restlessness and distortions in reality.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The crunch of a bird's wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds are… read more