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
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) They're not pets. Not ghosts or robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. They're everywhere. They're watching you... They've infiltrated apartments in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When pastry chef Nestor Chaffino turns up dead at a party at the mansion of art dealer Ernesto Teldi, the party guests all become suspects in the crime when it turns out that Nestor was threatening to reveal some dark secrets.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When a pastry chef is found dead in a walk-in freezer in the midst of a party he's catering, there is no shortage of suspects.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures of the young Argentine literary scene--the so-called "Generation of the 90s": artists and writers whose… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "I'm sick of you punks," Micaela said. "And I'm warning you now. I'm going to get you for that murder!" In the title story, the Latino community in East L.A. suffers horrible gang-related violence. Children are killed in the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Leilah lives in an idyllic village, where everything has its place. It's as beautiful and perfect as the scenes in her grandmother's embroidery. But some believe that just on the flipside of this orderly village lies the Other… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isol Misenta ; translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) "Begins to fuck with your head from its very first word."--Toby Litt. "Navidad & Matanza could be the hallucinogenic amalgamation of a César Aira plot with setting and characters conceived by Bolaño--if written using Oulipo-… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sketching fresh interpretations of the sociocultural landscape of the United States, reowned Costa Rican author Uriel Quesada follows characters dealing with bureaucracy and business efficiency, corruption and abuse, all in vivid… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When his marriage and career fall apart, a young lawyer sets out on a desperate mission to recapture the promise of his youth. His attempt leaves him stranded between a past he no longer recognizes and a life that's no longer his… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A travel book and a memoir, this crazy reconstruction of biographical chapters of a rock star is also a rough and tender reconstruction of biographical episodes of poetry. It is both prose and music. A long love letter from a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is a novel about the attempts of an old man and woman to rekindle their childhood love affair, set on the Columbian coast. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Love Letters from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian, our antihero, Eugenio Sanz Vecilla, a sixty-five-year-old retired Castilian newspaperman, reads a personal ad in Sentimental Correspondence while in the waiting room of a doctor’s… read more