Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Many years after a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways from a storm and receives a gold-and-diamond emblem from a grateful survivor, the captain's son learns of the object's link to a World War II tale about a man's… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gómez-Jurado ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history" -- 2014. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday: a failing body, a slower mind, and the ideals and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Relates the wanderings of the fictional poet Arnold Faría Utrillo during the first half of the twentieth century. From the San Francisco earthquake to Paris between the wars, from his mother's youth in the Mexican port of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An artist becomes insane because of his inability to communicate. A novel that tells the story of an artist who becomes insane because of his inability to communicate.With an introduction by Colm Tóibín.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Mexican crime writer Taibo and a real-life spokesperson for the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos, provide alternating chapters for this postmodern comedic mystery about good, evil and modern revolutionary politics. Elas… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Demetrio Macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villaas army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A masterful translation that embraces Azuela's lyrical portrayal of culture and landscape . . . The Underdogs tells the story of a courageous Indian farmer who almost unwittingly rises to a generalship in Pancho Villa's rebel… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diacuté, and his subsequent loss of belief… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diaz, and his subsequent loss of belief… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In addition to a fresh translation of Los de Abajo, Azuela's classic novel of the Mexican Revolution, this volume offers both a general Introduction to the work and an extensive appendix setting the novel in its historical,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) Mariano Azuela's 1915 novel Los de Abajo, here newly translated, is a fictional account of the Mexican Revolution through which he lived. Exploring themes of camaraderie, inequality, love, and justice, The… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) In these vignettes set in the fictional county of Belken along the Texas-Mexico border in the early to mid-twentieth century, Rolando Hinojosa sketches a landscape of Mexican Texans and Anglo Texans living side… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Acclaimed translator Edith Grossman brings to English-language readers Rojas's imaginative vision of Francisco de Goya and the reverberations of his art in Fascist Spain This historical novel by one of Spain's most celebrated… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who drew on his artistic… read more