Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As noted Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudí hides an extraordinary relic in his complex masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, he is pursued by the leader of a malevolent secret society that remains a threat a century later.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Esteban Martín and Andreu Carranza ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel García Márquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolivar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) General Simon Bolivar, 'the Liberator' of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life… 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) 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) Originally published in Spanish in 1967, The Great Zoo by the Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989) is a wry political project structured as though a fantastical bestiary of ideas and ideologies. Parodying the perceived… 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