Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Collection of twenty-three short stories of Argentinean peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyrants, and seductresses and fortune tellers.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 284 pp.
ISBN: 9780062660718
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the wake of the inferno unleashed over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, two stories unfold: that of Jim, an American soldier when the bomb dropped, and H, a mere schoolgirl at the time. Both victims of the bomb, the two cross… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
Summary/Reviews: (Back cover) Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez Sanchez is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the 'Notorious Infamous' like Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man-that the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Using only dialogue as its narrative technique, Luis Zapata recounts the story of his protagonist Santiago, a middle-aged businessman hopelessly in love with Arturo, a 19-year-old teenager, who is the son of Sarita, his best… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar/
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Recounts the experiences of Baltazar, a polar bear of wisdom and humor, after he is captured by hunters and confined in an urban zoo, in a satiric novel orginally written shortly after the 1973 Chilean coup.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down-- that she… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is 2001, and inflation is spiraling out of control in Argentina as Bruno Cadogan, an American graduate student specializing in Borges, arrives in Buenos Aires. Cadogan is on the trail of Julio Martel, an elusive tango singer… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of orphans… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Murder, love, betrayal, and some of the world’s most beautiful objects d’art come together in Juan Manuel de Prada's tempestuous, prize-winning novel set in Europe’s quintessentially enigmatic city: Venice. Alejandro… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arriving in wintry Venice to study Giorgione's painting, "The Tempest," Spanish art historian Alejandro Ballesteros witnesses a murder and is propelled into a dangerous web that brings together the city's academic world and a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) A passionate affair suddenly turns sinister, and the middle-aged couple realize they share a lust for killing as well as each other. Witty and unexpectedly amusing, this thrilling novel is a captivating look at desire in its… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Mempo Giardinelli ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.