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: (Amazon.com) Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "… 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.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents the "apocryphal autobiography" of author Luisa Valenzuela, who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from the ten years she lived in New York City, exploring her "dark desires," and discussing sexual fulfillment, human… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Luisa Valenzuela ; translated by Susan E. Clark.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A novel intertwining the voices of a mother and her daughter--women shaped and separated by violent historical moments--revealing unspoken parallels between the Holocaust and Argentina's "Dirty War".
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A drunken confession. Years dissolve in a blur of sex, drugs, and violence. With echoes of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Héctor Aguilar Camín's Day In, Day Out explores the lives of two darkly alluring sisters and the men… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The main character, Manuel, narrates how he resorted to brujeria—folk magic—to change his fate, or so he believes. The spell goes bad, reasons Manuel, when his mother’s life becomes endangered because he allowed her to become… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) An epic story that renews the story of Romeo & Juliet, set in a fantastic city controlled by two castles. In one of them,reules a suggestive and refined world of women, in the other one, a world of men who passion is war.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One of Cuba's most imaginative young writers presents this tale of one woman's spiritual and sexual reawakening, and a devastating portrayal of the Castro regime. In sensuous language, Valds renders day-to-day life in both urban… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The numbing rhythm of daily life in poverty-stricken Havana had deadened Danae's mind and spirit. In search of her first true love, Danae returns to the countryside of her adolescence, where the government of Fidel Castro had… read more