Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) "An elegant, precise, and accessible modern-English rendering of the two best examples of the early modern picaresque genre: the paradigmatic Lazarillo de Tormes and Quevedo's mordant El Buscón. Frye's translations are… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents: Leaf storm -- The… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents: Leaf storm -- The… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in post-revolutionary Havana in the late '50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood kids, smokes cigarettes, tells very lame jokes. The… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) It is Sylvia's sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin--not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Trueba ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows four characters through the maze of contemporary Madrid as a combination of a murder, a car crash and secret affair causes their lives to intersect and changes the course of their individual destinies.
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's most acclaimed writers, and Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming-of-age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. Agustini is not an… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carmen Boullosa ; translated from the Spanish by Geoff Hargreaves.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A mascot for an electronics store dreams of making it in the drug world of Rio de Janeiro. A tin man ponders the mysteries of death as a heart starts to take charge of his limbs, while in a place not so far away a boy tries to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A psychoanalyst tries to help a young man find happiness and fulfillment by telling him a story each day in an effort to provide a better understanding of his hopes, dreams, fears, and relationships.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After the IT firm where she works shuts down, Lucía has a vision of her future career as a taxi driver, brought on by the intoxicating opera floating through her apartment's air vent. She obtains her taxi license and meets the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An intricately wrought, multilayered novel, "Lies" ranges from the present to deep in the past. Told through two narratives, the stories are both brutal and exciting. Together these stories illuminate the importance of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a retired couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Weighed down by decades of grief… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parents' dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr"-- 1968. After shooting Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray has evaded authorities, driven to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A loathsome and hilarious Argentinian oligarch, innocent of nothing except murder, finds an unidentifiable corpse handcuffed in the trunk of his car, and must find a way to keep out of jail.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lilus Kikus, was erroneously first labeled a children's book because it had a young girl as protagonist, it included illustrations, and the author was an unknown woman. Accompanying Lilus Kikus in this first American edition are… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women is an ode and an incentive. This book brings together ten transcendental Dominican women writers who have lived or live outside of the Dominican Republic. They are: Camila Henríquez Ureña,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After leaving Peru to pursue graduate school north of the Arctic circle, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily - the blog was never defined as fact or fiction. Her blog posts became the bones… read more