Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Artforum is certainly one of César Aira's most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his compulsion to collect Artforum magazine, this is not about art so much as it is… read more
Publisher: McNally Jackson Books' Espresso Book Machine
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781938022838
Summary/Reviews: (goodreads) As If No One Had Died is a novel by Chilean author Poli Délano, translated from its original Spanish by Maggie Russell-Ciardi. It is a complex, polyphonic reflection on a critical moment in Chile's history-the years leading up… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Poetry. Latin American Studies. Translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard. ASHES IN LOVE is the first English-language edition of an extraordinary poetry collection from renowned Chilean poet Oscar Hahn. Hahn's work has been… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Oscar Hahn ; translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eugene O'Neill reached the port of Buenos Aires by the end of May 1910. He was just entering his twenties and possibly running away from a problematic family which would later become the core of some of his main dramatic… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it) finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At… read more
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9781558614277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she's jaded by her studies and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In La tía Tula, Unamuno paints a memorable portrait of the indomitable Aunt Tula, who fulfills her maternal desires on her own terms.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young scholar, employed by an aged widow to edit her husband's memoirs, falls in love with her niece in this novella of horror and beauty.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz's youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann--a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Writer Aliza Abravanel races to finish her final novel before her mind deteriorates. The last living speaker of a language is confronted with the disappearance of his culture. Through the construction of an esoteric theater of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman's coming-of-age tale about finding a community among fellow outcasts. Born in the small Argentine town of Mina Clavero, Camila is designated male but… read more
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9780063336124
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly. When the local… read more
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2024
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 123 pp.
ISBN: 9781558613201
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico.Contents: In heat -- Luisito -- In your head -- Casablanca kush --… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contains fourteen short crime stories set in Barcelona, including selections by Santiago Roncagliolo, Imma Monso, Valerie Miles, and others.