Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer… read more
Publisher: Washington Square Press/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Number of pages: 341 pp.
ISBN: 9781501121234
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Stripped of her family's privileges by the Nazi party in 1939 Berlin, Hannah Rosenthal forges a pact that she will remain true to her best friend, Leo, before embarking on a refugee ship bound for Havana, where rumors of a deadly… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The legendary title novella from one of Mexicos most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This lost masterwork, collected with his previously untranslated… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Rulfo ; translated from the Spanish, with an introduction and additional materials, by Douglas J. Weatherford.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Golden Horse by Juan David Morgan is a sweeping saga, painting a vivid, personal portrayal of the events that transpired as a result of the rivalry between New York shipping magnates, William Aspinwall and Cornelius… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and collide.
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is abducted in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. The kidnappers demand a ransom; his rich father does not reply. The… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) After a company retreat in a remote country house, senior employees of Alemany Cosmetics return with a dark secret. They've each received an anonymous, menacing email of only two words: 'never forget.' What's worse, the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After a company retreat in a remote country house, senior employees of Alemany Cosmetics return with a dark secret. They've each received an anonymous, menacing email of only two words: 'never forget.' What's worse, the message… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Green Bird and Other Tales / El pajaro verde y otros cuentos brings together, in English translation and in the original castellano, nine works that identify Juan Valera as an authentic fairy-tale/fantasy writer, a fictional… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences. This brothel, called the Green House… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Mario Vargas Llosa's novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences. This brothel, called the Green House… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The second volume of Goytisolo's acclaimed Antagonia tetralogy, The Greens of May Down to the Sea follows Raúl Ferrer Gaminde and his wife as they move from Barcelona to Rosas to begin a new life. Where the first volume of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Liborio calls upon his highly-honed survival skills to escape Mexico, sharing his journey and speaking of migrants' social problems via love letters to his girl.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Fiction. Short Stories. Latinx Studies. Chalar's fiction debut, THE GUARDIAN ANGEL OF LAWYERS, comprises thirteen stories examining the themes of guilt and innocence, punishment, legal culpability, and moral justification. A… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Full of Arriaga's trademark humor and irony present in his films and novels, The Guillotine Squad takes us back to one of the most exciting times in Mexican history. Feliciano Velasco y Borbolla de la Fuente, a lawyer, sells… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A brilliant, prize-winning collection of stories by Mexico's most important living writer. From the semiotics of pet iguanas to the disillusionment of mariachi singers, Villoro reveals the deep dissatisfactions and absurdities of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Cuban exile William Figueras, a thirty-eight-year-old writer suffering from schizophrenia, is sent to a shabby boarding home for the mentally ill in Miami.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Guillermo Rosales ; introduction by José Manuel Prieto ; translated by Anna Kushner.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Racked with guilt over a car accident that has left his wife Gloria horribly disfigured, Daniel is confronted at all moments by the call of the flesh and his duty as a husband. Enter Ezekiel, his insane brother, who has designed… read more