Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated by Lucia Graves.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the 1920s, long before he wrote The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was an accomplished pilot. Along with Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet, he was chosen to pioneer new mail routes across the globe. No distance was too… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafon ; translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julian is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Veronica to return from her art class. Each night, Julian has been improvising a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity. A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship falls overboard; adrift, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Derived from factual evidence, Perez-Reverte brings us a surprising novel with an interesting twist. Teresa Mendoza is nicknamed 'The Queen of the South' by journalists, and 'The Mexican' by the authorities of three continents… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of cocaine off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a novel as fragmented and verdant as memory itself, Argentine author Steimberg (Call Me Magdalena) creates a troubled Argentine writer, a widow in her late 50s who seeks comfort and recovery at a convalescent spa in the lush… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Set in the Canary Islands at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, The Ravine is the provocative, disturbing account of a child's experience with war. Narrated by an unnamed seven-year-old girl, the story begins in the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Nivaria Tejera ; translation and with an afterword by Carol Maier.
Summary/Reviews: () It is Holy Week, and the Haitian sugar cane harvesters can temporarily forget their misery and lose themselves in the fervor of Voudon. But amidst the colorful festival, a struggle for power, as well as a devastating passion, develops… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is Holy Week, and the Haitian sugar cane harvesters can temporarily lose themselves in the fervor of voudou. But amidst the colorful festival, a struggle for power, as well as a ferocious passion, develops between Mistress… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mayra Montero ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Rafael Courtoisie, born in Uruguay in 1958, is a writer and poet who has won various international awards for both his fiction and his poetry, most recently the Jaime Sabines International Poetry Prize, 2002. The Red Sea, is… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner in the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of short stories by Mario Benedetti that explores the gray area of life where people must make decisions with imperfect knowledge and flawed hearts.Contents: … read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the title story of this collection, a dead man expresses his disdain for the film "Ghost" and describes the actual process by which one enters the afterlife and then return to haunt the earth.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.