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.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Life in a rural and isolated town in the Ecuadorian mountains. Outsiders occupy the communal land and local people fight them.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A swashbuckling tale set in the Caribbean world at the time of the French revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure who led the naval assault to take back the island of Guadeloupe from the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejo Carpentier ; translated by John Sturrock ; introduction by Timothy Brennan.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Face of the Earth, Heart of the Sky is a testimonial novel of the Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s that movingly relates the victimization of the indigenous peoples by the National Army and the guerrillas. Weaving together… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Family Album is Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's rollicking follow up to her acclaimed English-language debut, Poso Wells. Alemán is known for her spirited and sardonic take on the fatefully interconnected--and often highly… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy. This study examines the cultural impact of this… read more