Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The best stories by the author of the unforgettable novel The Postman. Each of the stories in this book is an extraordinary piece of literature. Love, youth, desire, and freedom, along with versatile prose, sensitivity, and a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Publisher description) Coy is a Suspended Sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tanger uses her considerable… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and… read more
Publisher: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 340 pp.
ISBN: 9781594487439
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary. Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Night Buffalo is set in Mexico City, revolving around the mysterious suicide of Gregorio, a charismatic but troubled young man who was betrayed by the two people he trusted most. The beautifully rendered narrative is driven… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga weaves a luminous, insightful story of love and friendship, passion and betrayal, lunacy and mental illness. Set in Mexico City, The Night Buffalo revolves around… read more
Publisher: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 354 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187988
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her… read more
Publisher: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2023
Number of pages: 352 pp.
ISBN: 9781501187995
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope, from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall, in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of The German Girl.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a horribly violent confrontation occurs outside of Cauca, Colombia, only a young boy is around to witness it. But no sooner does the violence happen than it disappears, vanished without a trace. Nobody claims to have seen… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A dizzying look at the backrooms of literature, with petty squabbles, long-nurtured grudges, envied or undeserved prizes, failing publishers, and self-important critics, The No Variations is a serious game, or perhaps a frivolous… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hailed as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, The No World Concerto is a many-layered puzzle concerning an old screenwriter who has holed up in a shabby hotel in a never-named but familiar city in order to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And… read more