Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a rich, luscious style bordering on magical realism, Haghenbeck takes readers on an intriguing ride through Frida's life, including her long and tumultuous relationship with her lover Diego Rivera, the development of her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Eduardo Sacheri ; translated by John Cullen.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of short fiction gathers everything the author was working on before his death, including a story about a North American journalist receiving a mysterious call and a woman's recounting of the loss of her virginity.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1497 Milan, a Papal Inquisitor seeks to confirm, or deny, the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1497 a Dominican inquisitor is sent to Milan to supervise the final phase of the painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Never a conformist, da Vinci creates a masterpiece that raises questions that have yet to be… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A motley group of men who meet to play dominoes in a 1922 Mexico City hotel bar witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Barcelona, 1945: just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Three old members of Chile's Socialist Liberation Army have been summoned by the anarchist known as The Shadow to carry out one last revolutionary mission. The Shadow disappears before he can meet with them, though, and now one… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Laura Rivera can't believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in her own living room! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger or who might have masterminded the murder, but Laura - an upper-… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.