Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Everyone is resting but Paul. Paul mows, rakes, sows, and draws water. Soon Paul has beautiful plants and flowers growing all around him. But one day, the water dries up. The sun beats down. Paul despairs. But thanks to his… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of twenty stories by Bolivian authors.Contents: The day of atonement / Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz -- Buttons / Claudia Adriázola -- Dochera / Edmundo Paz-… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called "the Goat," still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republicand finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The sordid, thrilling, and comic story of two young lovers--affluent Lala and impoverished Guayi; examines the economic and social circumstances of Argentina and Paraguay to make sense of the characters' past choices and present… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Marco Junio Vitales, a military general, is assigned to interrogate an elderly fisherman named Peter during the year A.D. 62 and hears an incredible story that shakes the very foundations of the Roman Empire.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) These stories from Colombia contain pain and love, and sometimes even humor, allowing us to see a vibrant country amidst the death and loss. We encounter townspeople overcome by fear, a man begging unsuccessfully for his life, an… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) It is a biographical novel about a mexican pioneer woman aviator, doing commercial flights from the State of Washington to Alaska in the late twenties. It describes the way of life of most of the twentieth century, since 1906;… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The whispered confessions weave a tapestry of broken taboos and twisted expectations. The poignant and often hilarious tales expose the inner and outer terrain of relationships, sexuality, and the human condition." "In "Little… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The last novel by Peruvian writer Jose Maria Arguedas, set in the booming port city of Chimbote, is an expression of the human costs of rapid modernization. Tragically, the malaise of the society is reflected in the literal… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: José María Arguedas ; translated by Frances Horning Barraclough ; Julio Ortega, editor ; critical essays translated by Fred Fornoff.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Twenty-eight storytellers - one for each letter of the Arabic alphabet - meet in a garden to tell the story of a poet, Eusebio, who was arrested in the early days of the Spanish civil war. The storytellers question the nature of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This collection of fourteen stories and one minidrama features children protagonists, talking birds, and extraordinary occurrences. Like the tales of Charles Perrault and the brothers Grimm, they speak to fantasies and fears… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Their name was only spoken in hushed tones. They were cloaked in anonymity, a legend thought to belong to the distant past. In the early twentieth century, Barcelona basks as the center of the high-spirited Modernist movement… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As noted Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudí hides an extraordinary relic in his complex masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, he is pursued by the leader of a malevolent secret society that remains a threat a century later.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Esteban Martín and Andreu Carranza ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel García Márquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolivar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered… read more