Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Visited by his friend (a kind of Colombian Rasputin) seemingly at the verge of death, the writer, Eri, looks back on the arc of both of their lives. Unique in both its tone and its structure, the novel takes us from their student… read more
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) Trash interweaves the voices of three women with connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny's English-language debut shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for… read more
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) Tungula's Gift is the last short story written by Abelardo, one of Latin America's most revered composers and writers. It also is the first of his tales to be translated into English. In Tungula's Gift, Abelardo blends his… 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: (Amazon.com) Regina, the author and main character of our story, is chased by her duties as a mother and homemaker, the transit authorities, Thanksgiving supper, her longing to write a new novel, and characters from stories written years… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Spanish journalist and art historian Jaime Azcárate has always been a magnet for trouble. So when the authorities call on him to help investigate a museum heist while he’s enjoying a rare vacation, he is more annoyed than… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Two Bodies is a text that obliquely intersects Chilean national history and the personal history of Esteban, stories that circle graves and bodies and that end up running into each other at a red letter. Fragments of events in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Venezuela, 1992. CIA agent Eva and her Cuban counterpart, Mauricio, must deal with each other, imprisoned crime lord Pran, journalist Mónica, and Swiss banker Günther Müller while reacting to Hugo Chávez, the charismatic and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The writing of the late Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940-1985) resists almost any attempt to characterize, let alone summarize. An iconoclastic figure of the Latin American literary milieu of the mid-to-late twentieth century,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1842 a young Cuban woman published in Spain a riveting tale of love and death, so radical in its point of view that it did not appear in her homeland until more than seventy years later. Centering on Catalina the Countess of S… 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