Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Murder, love, betrayal, and some of the world’s most beautiful objects d’art come together in Juan Manuel de Prada's tempestuous, prize-winning novel set in Europe’s quintessentially enigmatic city: Venice. Alejandro… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arriving in wintry Venice to study Giorgione's painting, "The Tempest," Spanish art historian Alejandro Ballesteros witnesses a murder and is propelled into a dangerous web that brings together the city's academic world and a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) A passionate affair suddenly turns sinister, and the middle-aged couple realize they share a lust for killing as well as each other. Witty and unexpectedly amusing, this thrilling novel is a captivating look at desire in its… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Mempo Giardinelli ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In seventeenth-century France, young d'Artagnan joins the three musketeers and tries to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Time In Between follows the story of a seamstress who becomes the most sought-after couturiere during the Spanish Civil War and World War II
Additional Information: Responsibility: María Dueñas ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Poor seamstress Sira Quiroga forges a new identity during the Spanish Civil War and rises to the most sought-after couture designer in North Africa, where she is enlisted to pass coded information to the British Secret Service.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) H.G. Wells wasn't the only nineteenth-century writer to dream of a time machine. The Spanish playwright Enrique Gaspar published El anacronopete--"He who flies against time"--Eight years before Wells's influential work appeared.… read more
Additional Information: With illustrations by Francesc Soler from the original 1887 edition.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) "The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez delves into the political power and influence of the Brull family in the District of Alcira. The novel explores the rise of don Ramón Brull and his wife, doña Bernarda, as… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Many years after a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways from a storm and receives a gold-and-diamond emblem from a grateful survivor, the captain's son learns of the object's link to a World War II tale about a man's… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gómez-Jurado ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history" -- 2014. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday: a failing body, a slower mind, and the ideals and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Relates the wanderings of the fictional poet Arnold Faría Utrillo during the first half of the twentieth century. From the San Francisco earthquake to Paris between the wars, from his mother's youth in the Mexican port of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An artist becomes insane because of his inability to communicate. A novel that tells the story of an artist who becomes insane because of his inability to communicate.With an introduction by Colm Tóibín.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexican crime writer Taibo and a real-life spokesperson for the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos, provide alternating chapters for this postmodern comedic mystery about good, evil and modern revolutionary politics. Elas… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Demetrio Macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villaas army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A masterful translation that embraces Azuela's lyrical portrayal of culture and landscape . . . The Underdogs tells the story of a courageous Indian farmer who almost unwittingly rises to a generalship in Pancho Villa's rebel… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in… read more