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) 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) A dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the Venetian palaces populated by fascinating and evil figures, his ruin, and his most beautiful journey—the crossing on foot of the frozen… read more
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
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Paloma Sánchez-Garnica's first novel to be translated into English is a beautiful, harrowing, and illuminating story of family betrayals and a last chance for forgiveness. Carlota Molina has a brilliant career as a judge in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Deep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of indigenous Mayans-the "men of maize"-serves as stewards to sacred corn crops. When outsiders encroach on their territory and threaten to abuse the fertile land, they enter… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Selected by the author, each story is a glimpse into the works that first gained Pitol his status as one of the greatest living Mexican writers and showcases the evolution of his unique literary style.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) First published in Argentina in 1994, this novel is a detective story in which the police try to solve an assassination and a lost man tries to reconstruct his identity. These two searches are set against the story of four… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Greatly influenced by Europe's nineteenth-century literary trends, Mexico's writers crafted some of the most phenomenal prose fiction in Spanish America. This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short… read more