Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful stories.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Lovers on All Saints' Day is an emotional book that haunts, moves, and seduces. Juan Gabriel Vasquez, the brilliant novelist, now brings his keen eye and rich prose to the themes of love and memory in these seven powerful… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Lucas Guevara is the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States. Published in the United States in 1914 by Colombian emigre Diaz Guerra, the novel establishes the structure and formula that numerous other… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) This is the English translation of Lucas Guevara, the first Spanish-language novel of immigration to the United States, Written by Colombian emigre Alirio Diaz Guerra and originally published in the United States in 1914, the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wife's earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader, he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Mac's wife, Carmen, a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents, thinks… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) One day in the life of "Senator Vicente Reinosa, a crooked politician stuck in a gargantuan traffic jam; his neurotic, artistocratic wife; their son Benny, a fascist who is quite literally in love with his Ferrari;… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Luis Rafael Sánchez ; translated with an introduction by Gregory Rabassa.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A neighborhood soccer star has a secret plan for his team's big game--a plan even more impressive than his bicycle kicks.Illustrated by Raquel Catalina
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Madmen in Revolt contains Roberto Arlt’s complete masterpiece: The Seven Madmen & The Flamethrowers, combined in a single volume for the first time in history. The Seven Madmen is the first half this masterpiece and The… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Alchemist and visionary, the María Magdalena of this novel by Mexican author Beatriz Escalante searches for the philosopher's stone and the secret of eternal life on a long metamorphic pilgrimage through medieval Europe. From a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In Makbara, Juan Goytisolo―widely considered Spain’s greatest living writer―again dazzles the reader with his energetic, stylistic prose, which he himself compares to a snake: cunning, sly, sinuous. But the themes in Makbara… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Translations of 46 short articles comprising a collection of Vargas Llosa's writings from early 1960s-93, chosen for their diversity of topics. Presented in chronological order with some grouped thematically; political and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) At the heart of the novel is Tomason, an African artist living along the Rimac, who paints religious murals for the church and his colonial masters. The intermingling of his Yoruba heritage with his life in a Spanish colony… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) “In Malambo . . . the Rimac proudly rubs elbows with the freedmen, the cimarrons, and smuggled slaves. . . It runs united to the other subterranean springs underneath Blanket Street, Weavers Lane, and under Jewish Street . . .… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Book 1: A captivating story bound to leave you breathless from internationally acclaimed author Jose Ignacio Valenzuela. When Angela receives an eerie text message from her estranged, best-friend Patricia, her heart stops.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Malinalli, a member of a tribe conquered by the Aztec warriors, first meets Cortes, she--like so many--believes that the conquistador is the reincarnated forefather god of her tribe. Naturally, she assumes that her task is… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the story of the love affair between the conquistador Hernan Cortez and Malinalli, his Indian intepreter during the conquest of the Aztec empire, describing her role as a mediator between two very different languages and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The internationally bestselling author of "Like Water for Chocolate" returns with this extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love affair during the conquest of the Aztecs, between the conquistador Cortez and his… read more