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: (Amazon.com) Thelonius Monk (not his real name) travels to Russia and meets Linda Evangelista (not her real name) in Saint Petersburg. They journey to Yalta, where he promises that he will make her red hair famous in the fashion magazines.… 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
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Nieve Guerra finds herself caught between the tides of her parents' turbulent relationship and a country torn apart by political unrest, she begins recording the intimate and harsh details of her life within the pages of her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Setting out for Shanghai to settle the affairs of her recently deceased husband, Spanish painter Elvira finds herself swept up in a centuries-old quest to find the lost treasure of China's first emperor.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Spanish painter Elvira De Poulain travels to China to settle her dissolute husband's estate which she finds consists of a beautiful box with clues to the burial site of China's first Emperor. She sets out with colorful companions… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the height of Maria de Zayas' popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. This book gathers a representative sample of seven stories,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist -- the Parisian "Monster of Le Sentier"--Is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Peter Bush.