Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) SEVEN VIEWS OF THE SAME LANDSCAPE is a beautiful collection of coming-of-age tales that unfold in post-Civil War Barcelona. Told as remembered episodes largely from a child's perspective, the young Sara is entranced by the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) “Why hurry to give a welcome to grief?” asks Carolina. In the 1880’s a Mexican family splits in two; Carolina remains in rural Mexico, while her two brothers head north to what will become urban Texas. Still connected but ever… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Ricardo Elizondo ; English translation by Geoff Hargreaves.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The monotonous life of a male bookseller is shaken by a consummate female book thief named Severina. As though in an obsessive dream with blurred lines between the rational and irrational, the bookseller delves deeper and deeper… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Three men, including a railway signalman, a World War I hero and Nazi general, and a master chess player, find key events in their lives intertwining as the events of the First and Second World Wars thrust them together at the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Counter A stunning debut by one of Mexico's most dazzling younger writers. In 1916, Victor Kretzchmar and Thadeus Dreyer face each other over a chessboard on a train heading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's disastrous Eastern… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) During World War II, General Thadeus Dreyer is put in charge of the Amphitryon Project, training doubles to stand in for leading Nazis at dangerous public events. What bearing does this have on the arrest of Adolf Eichmann in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A man's search for a missing girl leads him across borders and through a landscape of urban violence in this timely, propulsive, and brilliantly imagined thriller. Ethan is living a solid, rational life as a bail bondsman in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) In this bildungsroman, Donato Ndongo masterfully exposes the cultural fissures of his native land. "Spanish Guinea" is a heated, sensual landscape with exotic animals and trees, ancient rituals, ghosts, saints, and sinners. We… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, Shadows of your Black memory presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown attracts the attention of a corrupt policeman who would use anyone including innocent kids to break a drug ring he believes… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) She decided to be a hippy at 50 ISC Novel Award 1999 When you feel the world is tight, erases yours dreams, attempts to tie your emotions or silences your voice as you differ, wear your colored beads, your bellbottoms, a ribbon… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin introduces the revolutionary work of a mysterious Japanese writer whose very existence has been all but erased from world literature. A writer who inspired Juan Rulfo and José María Arguedas,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Larry returns to Colombia twelve years after the disappearance of his father, an old associate of Pablo Escobar. His remains have finally been unearthed in a mass grave, and Larry is returning to give them a proper burial ... but… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The generation of Spanish artists known as the 98ers, who renounced politics and sought their country's true spirit within its landscape, culture, and character, are well represented here by thirteen stories by five outstanding… read more