Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement of a Nobel Prize winning career. The novel tells the story… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A poignant collage of stories of women young and old, this novel from an Alfaguara Prize-winning author explores passion, bad decisions, and the scars left by relationships over time. Margarita suspects that her husband is having… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Identical twin spinsters, Gloria and Constitución Gamal, enjoy their successful tailoring business in rural Mexico and take particular thrills in confusing people. When a new suitor arrives, one sister decides she wants all the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Grieving the loss of her husband and child, Alicia is haunted by surreal nighmares that start to appear in her waking world, a situation that causes her to question her sanity and the sincerity of her support network.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) AAfter a tragic car accident shatters her body and mind, Cassandra struggles to piece together her life as a respected psychiatrist and devoted mother. But the accident has changed her. Her eyes have been opened to horrors she… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mr. Optimus Oloop is a Finnish statistician living in Buenos Aires. His life runs according to a methodical and rigid schedule, with everything - from his meals down to his visits to the city brothels - timed to the minute.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Spain, 1639. When Len de Montemayor's family is killed, she thinks her life is over ... until an aristocratic family rescues her. Len finds a soul mate in their son, Piers, and as they grow up together, their friendship becomes a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The ten writers in this volume rose to prominence in the last decade of the twentieth century. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba underwent a drastic economic contraction that brought about an explosion of feminine… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Operation Pedro Pan opened the door to the United States for more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied Cuban children. How did this come to be called Operation Pedro Pan? It was important from the very beginning that we in Miami… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) 'Was it an intuition that made me select -- I think at the beginning of my adolescence – a form of approach to life linked to English literature through Shakespeare? And can one talk in this case of literature? I think not, I… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The crisp tension in this daring collection of short stories—with both the original Spanish and flawless English renditions—reveals a darker side of Cuban reality. One woman wakes up to find an unknown man fast asleep by her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An Argentinian woman obsessed with art conflates personal events from her life in Buenos Aires with fascinating episodes from art history, refracting her personality through the canvases she studies.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It seemed to me the state of my soul was a blurry memory of something that had occurred in a place in northern Spain called Ordesa... A man at a crossroads in midlife considers the place where he's from, where his parents have… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Ornamental is Juan's third novel, but it will be his first translated into English. It follows a scientist who recruits a group of volunteers for the trial of a new recreational drug that only affects women. Among them is "number… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Partially autobiographical, this is a masterpiece of introspective, linguistically innovative fiction about the relationship between two sisters, one severely handicapped, the other gifted yet overlooked. Mariana is four years… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young woman suffers a mental breakdown because of her repressive and religious mother. A group of children is fascinated by the sudden death of a friend. A drug trafficking couple visits Paris at the same time as a psychopathic… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Acclaimed Mexican writer David Toscana's second novel is a whimsical and dark tale of a group of circus performers who are seduced by the idea of living like ordinary people.