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) The ex Rock Star Mario Müller discovers a visionary possibility in the Caribbean: the pleasures of fear. On the banks of an enormous coral reef The Pyramid is built, a resort that offers controlled dangers until a diver dies… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set during day and night of New Year's Eve--building up a barbecue that takes on ritual significance--the novel focuses on a couple in the north of Argentina who lost their only son eight years prior. Wenceslao spends the day… 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) The protagonist-narrator of The Invented Part and The Dreamed Part returns to find an answer the question: how does a writer remember? In particular, how does a he--a writer who no longer writes but can't stop reading and… 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) The one and only novel by renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso - Latin America's most expansive miniaturist, whose tiny, acid, and bracingly surreal narratives Italo Calvino has dubbed "the most beautiful stories in the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of short stories by Roberto Bolaño.Contents: Snow -- Another Russian tale -- William Burns -- Detectives -- Cell mates -- Clara -- Joanna Silvestri --… 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.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A man drives alone along the vast, desolate roads of Patagonia, a mystical land. He comes across a starving and helpless teenager, who is now the prince grown older and returned to Earth. The two travellers, extremely different… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner puts his marriage at risk while training for a marathon; a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Ring follows a young New York lawyer who receives two rings -- one from her fiancé and one that will lead her on an unforgettable adventure in search of a Templar treasure that has remained hidden for centuries.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) On El Rancho Grande, the grandchildren are not so interested in how Grandpa bought the ranch, but in what can be done on the ranch. The children play hide and seek in cornfields, under "the canopy of green leaves, golden… read more