Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Helen Lane.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cousins, widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina, who are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals, including illegal abortions… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Along the Mediterranean coastline of Spain, real-estate developers scramble to transform the once pastoral landscape into tourist resorts, nightclubs, and beachfront properties with lavish bars and pools. The booming post-Franco… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Then: It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the England of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tomas Cruz swore he would never be like his father, an abusive cocaine junky whose gangland exploits are notorious throughout the underbelly of northern Argentina. When Samuel Cruz is sentenced to thirteen years in prison, he… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Travel to Cuba in the company of its finest writers and gain an understanding of its remarkable mystique. The twenty-one stories in this collection some of which appear in English for the first time will take you on an odyssey… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The tragicomical misadventures of an opinionated Cuban youth on a bi-cultural quicksand path in search for missing principles and spiritual values. Satirical, irreverently shocking and outrageously funny!
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A bilingual anthology of twelve short stories, many of which appeared in the 1960s in the English-language magazine "The San Juan Review". Written by six of Puerto Rico's leading writers, it has themes that vary in time from the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Indian revolts in the province of Chimborazo Ecuador destroyed the family and goods of the rancher Juan Domingo Orosco, as revenge for the maltreatment and abuse of the savages. After this unfortunate event, Orosco converted… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Indian revolts in the province of Chimborazo Ecuador destroyed the family and goods of the rancher Juan Domingo Orosco, as revenge for the maltreatment and abuse of the savages. After this unfortunate event, Orosco converted… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) By the author of "The Obscene Bird of the Night", "Sacred Families" and "A House in the Country", this is a story of the tragic love between an upper-middle-class radical woman and her lover who has returned after a career as a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Havana, 1957. On the same day that the mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Javier Marias begins Dark Back of Time with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--The real-life… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.