Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Dona Barbara tells the tale of an epic struggle between two cousins for a cast estate and ranch in the Venezuelan llano, or prairie ... Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Dona Barbara is one of the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The marquis of Villafria, having squandered his fortune on a dissolute life in Madrid, has had to retire to rural Andalusia, to the town of Villafria, with his young daughter Dona Luz. There he comes under the sway of Don Acisclo… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Dona Perfecta is a novel written by Benito Perez Galdos, a well-known Spanish writer. The book is set in the fictional town of Orbajosa, which is located in the Castilian region of Spain. The story revolves around the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Doña Luz must abandon her aristocratic life in nineteenth-century Madrid and begin anew in rural Andalusia. What she cannot leave behind is her history: an illegitimate birth that defines who she is and what her future holds.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Double Room is intellectually thrilling and compulsively readable while straddling both fiction and nonfiction. The book is made up of four parts, each of which is in turn divided into two sections. While these four "double rooms… read more
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: (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: (WorldCat) Down with Gargamel! is a futurist tale set in Puerto Rico, New York, and Colorado Springs that unfolds during the transition from peak oil production to a future that's formless, dangerous, and full of possibility. As global… 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: (WorldCat) Argentine novel set during the Proceso de reorganización nacional; an experimental thriller that focuses on secrecy, betrayal, and violence and reflects the national struggle for power and control through the servants in a… read more
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) Fiction. Translated for the Spanish by Rob Gunther. DRUMS FOR A LOST SONG, Jorge Velasco Mackenzie's tale of José Margarito,"the Singer," escaping from slavery in nineteenth-century Ecuador, combines elements of Ecuadorean… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Inspired by a dream, a retired publisher spontaneously embarks on a trip to the Dublin cemetery in which a character from Joyce's "Ulysses" was buried, where he meets a mysterious person who resembles Samuel Beckett.
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: (Amazon.com) El Cura. (Caso de Incesto) Novela medico social (The Priest. Case of Incest. Medical-Social Novel) (1885) constitutes, together with La Regenta (1884-1885) by Leopoldo Alas, a.k.a. Clarin, one of the best Spanish examples of… 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.