Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) General Simon Bolivar, 'the Liberator' of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The legendary title novella from one of Mexicos most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This lost masterwork, collected with his previously untranslated… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Rulfo ; translated from the Spanish, with an introduction and additional materials, by Douglas J. Weatherford.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and collide.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is abducted in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. The kidnappers demand a ransom; his rich father does not reply. The… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) After a company retreat in a remote country house, senior employees of Alemany Cosmetics return with a dark secret. They've each received an anonymous, menacing email of only two words: 'never forget.' What's worse, the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences. This brothel, called the Green House… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mario Vargas Llosa's novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences. This brothel, called the Green House… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Liborio calls upon his highly-honed survival skills to escape Mexico, sharing his journey and speaking of migrants' social problems via love letters to his girl.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, The Guillotine Squad takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A brilliant, prize-winning collection of stories by Mexico's most important living writer. From the semiotics of pet iguanas to the disillusionment of mariachi singers, Villoro reveals the deep dissatisfactions and absurdities of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cuban exile William Figueras, a thirty-eight-year-old writer suffering from schizophrenia, is sent to a shabby boarding home for the mentally ill in Miami.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Guillermo Rosales ; introduction by José Manuel Prieto ; translated by Anna Kushner.
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An ode to tolerance and the liberty of conscience, The Heretic is an unforgettable story of a man and the passions that move him to action.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This literary-historical novel takes readers on a compelling journey through the Reformation and Spanish Inquisition in 16th century.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This authoritative textual edition presents Tobias Smollett's translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote in the form most faithful to Smollett's own intentions. It includes Francis Hayman's twenty-eight illustrations engraved for the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra by Tobias Smollett ; introduction and notes by Martin C. Battestin ; the text edited by O M Brack, Jr.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they wend their way across… read more