Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Paris--and since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate. She would spend the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The number-one international bestseller, "Women With Big Eyes" is Mexican novelist Angeles Mastretta's most wedely read work, at last translated into English. Meet the outrageous Aunt Leonor, who deines herself the forbidden… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A number-one international bestseller, Women with Big Eyes is Mexican novelist Ángeles Mastretta's most widely read work, now available for the first time in an English translation. Each of the stories in this volume reveals a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) The story of a son trying to make his father proud-- by becoming an international criminal. Set in contemporary Barcelona and made up of multiple storylines, including a fictional manuscript by Stephen King.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Calvo ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A granddaughter and grandmother, alienated from their community, live among various sombras, shadows of the dead with whom they alone can pray and commune. When the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws the unwanted… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. World's Best Mother is a sublime journey--through… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "I tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? You're so good and yet you suffer so much," a young boy tells his mother in Tomás Rivera's classic… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States. Abelardo, who… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Yawar Fiesta describes the social relations between Indians, mestizos, and whites in the Peruvian highland town of Puquio in the early twentieth century. Each group's reaction to the national government's attempt to suppress… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Yearning for the Sea picks up the story of Homer's Odyssey at the point of Ulysses' return to his wife Penelope, twenty years after the destruction of Troy. He has faced a long struggle to overcome the obstacles interposed by the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Yocandra, the first-person narrator, was born (like Valdés herself) in Havana in 1959. Now a dispirited, outspoken woman living in Cuba, narrator writes of a reality of 'nothing' that contrasts poignantly with that of a gusana… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Now back in print, the debut novel that made Zoé Valdés an international literary sensation, the bold, bawdy story of a failed revolution and its discontents.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1937 tens of thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic were slaughtered by Dominican troops wielding machetes and knives. Dominican writer and lawyer Freddy Prestol Castillo worked on the Haiti--Dominican Republic… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan--today's Mexico City… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing-at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific-casts an eerily bright spell over the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jacques Deza, hired by a shady branch of the MI6, returns to Madrid to both to spy on and to protect his own family.--From publisher's description.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild… read more