Publisher: Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 805 pp.
ISBN: 9780062668691
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sister Ottavia Salina, a Vatican archivist, along with an archaeologist and a captain in the Swiss Guard, investigates international relic thefts, faces tests based on the seven deadly sins, and searches for the True Cross.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the same vein as Ruiz-Zafon's "In the Shadow of the Wind" and Daniel Silva's "Prince of Fire" comes an internationally bestselling novel about the search for the secret location of the actual Holy Cross used to crucify Jesus.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the Roaring Twenties, two worldly young aristocrats embark on a journey to see one of their idols, the sublime Italian actress Eleonora Duse, who, to their utmost delight, has recently returned to the stage. What follows as… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From acclaimed Cuban writer Mayra Montero, author of "The Messenger", comes a highly charged erotic novel that explores the impossible vertigo of late passion. "The Last Night I Spent With You" confronts the mysteries of death… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mayra Montero ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From acclaimed Cuban writer Mayra Montero, author of "The Messenger", comes a highly charged erotic novel that explores the impossible vertigo of late passion. "The Last Night I Spent With You" confronts the mysteries of death… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A small town in the Mexican desert has a library where few are interested in books. The only reader is the librarian who sees everything through the lens of literature. When a girl is found dead in the librarian's… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Toscana ; translated by Asa Zatz.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Rafael Molinet Rojas, a Spaniard living in London, plans his suicide following the death of his mother. However, the story of the scandalous and deeply suspicious death of high-society lothario Jaime Valdes causes him to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Depressed over the death of his mother, Rafael Molinet, an elderly, introverted Spaniard living in London, makes plans for his suicide until he becomes involved in the investigation of the murder of a Madrid playboy at a lavish… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The Legacy of Shadows is an enigma wrapped in mystery as a writer, in an attempt to understand the death of his artist friend, finds unexpected answers in a remote and largely uninhibited mining town which is lost in both space… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of one family, which reaches from Hitler's camps to the dungeons of the Uruguayan junta, is recounted in soul-stirring fragments by a single subject: in the memory of Moishe the child, the youth, and the man, fiction… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village" -- Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn's husband Antoine is drafted… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The first English translation of a major Argentine literary figure. With an uncommon blend of elation and discretion, The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi takes readers on a journey of mysterious encounters, unspoken agreements,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service of a succession of masters,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In The Linden Tree, the narrator, who could be Aira himself (born the same year, in the same place, a writer who is now also living in Buenos Aires) writes down his childhood memories.