Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "No one ever suspects, " begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, "that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms ..." Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Marta, the woman with whom he was about to begin an affair, suddenly dies in his arms, Víctor first considers walking away but is unable to resist delving into Marta's dark secrets.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The 1889 novella Torquemada at the Stake focuses on a character who had appeared in previous works by Galdós (and who would reappear in three subsequent novels). Named after the infamous Grand Inquisitor of the fifteenth… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories out over at least seven coffees and everyone knows he is the best storyteller in town.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In post-Napoleonic Germany, a traveller on his way to Dessau stops off for a night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He intends to move on the following day, but the town begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend's debts, kindly… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pedru Juan paints in his crumbling Havana apartment, beset by a growing sense of melancholy as he observes the lives of the hustlers, hipsters, and hookers in the city below. He is pursued by Gloria, a proud and sophisticated… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The novel is three stories in one: the story of Juan Capistrán, an orphan destined to live a quixotic life in search of adventure and heroism; the life of Froylán Gómez, a man who will forever be in love with the fantasy of a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Toscano ; translated from the Spanish by Patricia J. Duncan.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) After a hurricane smashes through the Mexican town of Tula, the narrator's friend is missing--seemingly carried off by the storm--but when his car turns up, filled with his papers, the disappeared man's wife is convinced that… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garca Mrquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Seven short stories explore the hard lives of women of different ages on both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Considered the first novel of Mexican immigration depicting the diverse experiences of Mexican immigrants.With an introduction by John Pluecker.
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 183 pp.
ISBN: 9780063256682
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In USMAÍL, Pedro Juan Soto gives us a masterful description of life on the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques during the 1930s, 40s and 50s as seen through the eyes of the islanders themselves. The story follows the life of a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Santiago Ramón y Cajal ; translated from the Spanish by Laura Otis.