Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no-one knows his whereabouts. His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he meets… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Maria is a romantic novel written by Colombian writer Jorge Isaacs in 1867, which takes place in the hacienda "El Paraiso" located in the municipality of El Cerrito in the Valle del Cauca, in which Isaacs really lived. Although… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This classic 19th-century Colombian novel tells the poignant story of unrequited love between Efraín and María, set against the backdrop of the lush Valle del Cauca. Blending elements of romanticism and local color, the novel… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This classic 19th-century Colombian novel tells the poignant story of unrequited love between Efraín and María, set against the backdrop of the lush Valle del Cauca. Blending elements of romanticism and local color, the novel… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This luxurious translation of a Spanish tour de force, about the return of an exile to his native Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War, should captivate those who prize the elegant lyricism and complexity of Latin American… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Martin Rivas, an impoverished but ambitious young man from the northern mining region of Chile, is entrusted by his late father to the household of a wealthy and influential member of the Santiago elite. While living there, he… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the author of 'The House of Spirits' - teenage Maya is in trouble. She's an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all go so wrong? Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the end of the Spanish Civil War, Tanis Gamuzo sets out to avenge the death of his brother, who was abducted and killed during the war, in a work set in a backward rural community. Mazurka for Two Dead Men represents a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Karen Nieto passed her earliest years a feral child, left alone to wander the vast beach property near her family failing tuna cannery in Mazatlan, Mexico. When her mother dies, Karen's long-kept family secret is revealed. What… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Karen Nieto passed her earliest years a feral child, left alone to wander the vast beach property near her family failing tuna cannery in Mazatlan, Mexico. When her mother dies, Karen's long-kept family secret is revealed. What… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In Meditations on Quixote, Jose Ortega y Gasset presents a powerful case for integrating literature into experience. Through a series of "essays in intellectual love," Ortega explores the aim of philosophy: to carry a given… read more
Additional Information: Introduction and notes by Julián Marías.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Memories of Development takes an intimate look at the long-term effects of exile and disillusion within the Cuban diaspora. Edmundo, a former revolutionary who immigrated long ago to the United States, now finds himself in his… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Edmundo Desnoes ; English translation by Al Schaller.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Having decided to celebrate his ninetieth birthday by spending the night with a young virgin, an old man falls deeply in love for the first time in his life when he spots the girl at a local brothel.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel García Márquez's first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, "Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An elderly journalist decides to celebrate 90th year in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a young virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, the moment comes where he sees the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Malabre is a prosperous Havana businessman whose life has been appropriated by the Cuban revolution. Though his wife, family and friends flee the country in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs, he is forced to confront his… read more