Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) What Tochtli wants more than anything right now is a new pet for his private zoo: a pygmy hippopotamus from Liberia. But Tochtli is growing up in his drug baron father's luxury hideout, shared with hit men and dealers. Down the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) This meditative novel, grounded in the thinking of Spain's great modern philosopher Ortega y Gasset, unfolds as the journal of a bourgeois chemist who makes his way in Buenos Aires just before and during the Spanish… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Rosa Chacel ; translated by Carol Maier.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Dreams and Realities offers a sampling of Gorriti's stories, showing the range of her commitment to political fiction drawn in the romantic style. Originally published in four volumes under the titles Sueños y realidades and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Played out against the background of today's instant communication via internet, this a story of a woman who comes face to face with emotional and cultural questions when a chance meeting with a lover from her past reopens… read more
Publisher: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2020
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 206 pp.
ISBN: 9780062987730
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Eartheater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The eight novellas collected in this book display the humor, exuberant spirit, love of language, and insight of the Spanish writer Ramon Gomez de la Serna, a central figure in the European and Latin American avant-garde, and a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) José Rizal was one of the leading champions of Filipino nationalism and independence. His masterpiece, Noli Me Tangere, is widely considered to be the foundational novel of the Philippines. In this riveting continuation,… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: José Rizal ; translated [from the Spanish] with an introduction and notes by Harold Augenbraum.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Published in Ghent in 1891, this work is translated into English, German, French, Japanese, Tagalog, Ilonggo, and other languages. A nationalist novel by an author who has been called ""the first Filipino,"" its nature as a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit (1901) by the Mexican nationalist Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1843–1893) is one of the earliest Latin American novels written by an Indian. Altamirano, whose childhood language was Nahuatl, received… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for its marginal characters who seek… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Veronica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever, vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt."--Francisco Goldman "From the very beginning, Veronica Gerber… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A writer begins keeping a notebook of handwriting exercises hoping that, if he is able to improve his penmanship, his character will improve too. What begins as a mere physical exercise is filled involuntarily with reflections… read more
Summary/Reviews: () An excellent addition to intermediate or advanced-level Spanish language or literature courses, En la Ocho y la Doce is a collection of microfictions and longer stories that present diverse perspectives on the experience of Cuban… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This volume traces the history of Latin American theater, including the Nuyorican and Chicano theaters of the United States, and surveys its history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Sections cover individual Latin… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Argentine native Hermann has mostly retired from her career as a scholar of Spanish literature in the US. She assembled ten stories in Viajes en lapalabra y en la imagen , which was published by Ediciones de Arte Gaglanone in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother toils, and herself in service from an early age, the enchanting and ever-enchanted Eva Luna escapes oppression through story telling. Rolf Carle flees Germany for South… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor… read more