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
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