Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the nearly deserted and ruined town of Ainielle, high in the Spanish Pyrenees, the village's sole remaining inhabitant, an elderly man on his deathbed, reminiscences about his life and summons the ghosts of his friends and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This study examines the work of Manuel Vazquez Montalban, a Spanish creative writer and socio-political commentator, focusing on his Carvalho series of detective novels, which span some 25 years. Bayo Bellenguer (Spanish, Dublin… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The emerging societies of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century were a riotous assembly of pirates, aristocrats, revolutionaries, and rogues -- outcasts and fortune seekers all. In They're Cows, We're Pigs, acclaimed Mexican… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories--spiraling from real events--that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Tells the stories of a gypsy romance, a dialogue between two dogs, and a day in the underworld of eighteenth-century Seville, written in the baroque language of Cervantes' era.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after 20 years of absence to mourn his two friends--two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised 'the three musketeers'.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Tierra del Fuego is a suspenseful seafaring tale in the tradition of Horatio Hornblower, enriched by a chilling psychological and cultural tale that probes deeply into human nature - one reminiscent of Heart of Darkness or… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of nine short stories set in the bleak and unforgiving landscape of Chile's southern islands explores the harsh reality of the baseness of human nature.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For this fictionalized account of the life of Tina Modotti (1896-1942), Elena Poniatowska devoted ten years of research to understand the woman who was so caught up in the social and political turbulence of the pre-World War II… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The novel portrays a love triangle, as the two Peruvians protagonists--Melisa, a young artist, and Miguel, a middle-aged writer--jaunt about Europe in search of themselves and their roots, finding the joy of love and the anxiety… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "A novel tracing the path of a nameless wanderer as he walks the length of Manhattan and beyond-from South Ferry to the Grand Concourse in the Bronx-taking note of all the literary and historical ghosts haunting him, and the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Set in the very near future, Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore is the story of a traveling salesman floating from arid Arizona parking lots to steamy Bangkok bars to peddle the hottest new commodity for a group known only as the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence. Thou shalt not kill. But, as our narrator admits, "Killing is not so extreme or so difficult… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sitting at the bedside of his mother as she is dying from leukemia in a hospital in northern Mexico, Julián is immersed in memories of his unstable boyhood and youth. Guadalupe was a prostitute, and Julián spent his childhood… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the fictional narration of a military campaign ordered by the dictator Porfirio Diaz in October 1892, which resulted in the massacre of the village of Tomochic. The work is narrated by an eyewitness, the author, and… read more