Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After a zombie breakout ravages Spain, a few survivors arrive in the Canary Islands, one of the last zones safe from the Undead. But there, they encounter a military state embroiled in a civil war with a hungry population without… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) An act of terrorism unleashed an unspeakable biological weapon. . .and hell on earth. But as the masses felled by a hideous virus rose from the dead to prey on the living, a small band of survivors defied death and its ghastly… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Manuel Puig's 1976 Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated into English in 1979 and adapted as an Academy Award-winning film, expanded the idiom of the novel (mixing cinema, fiction, romance, and song) and challenged the third-… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of stories that takes readers on a literary journey that climbs the Andes Mountains, navigates the great River Plate, traverses the expansive plains of the Pampas, and explores the ever-changing landscape of the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A young Spaniard, born in Galicia, migrates to South America's western coast. Hard work, savings, and investments allow him to develop a prosperous enterprise. His son, and later Marco his grandson, expand the company. Domingo… read more
Publisher: McNally Jackson Books' Espresso Book Machine
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 193 pp.
ISBN: 9781938022838
Summary/Reviews: (goodreads) As If No One Had Died is a novel by Chilean author Poli Délano, translated from its original Spanish by Maggie Russell-Ciardi. It is a complex, polyphonic reflection on a critical moment in Chile's history-the years leading up… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Poetry. Latin American Studies. Translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard. ASHES IN LOVE is the first English-language edition of an extraordinary poetry collection from renowned Chilean poet Oscar Hahn. Hahn's work has been… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Oscar Hahn ; translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eugene O'Neill reached the port of Buenos Aires by the end of May 1910. He was just entering his twenties and possibly running away from a problematic family which would later become the core of some of his main dramatic… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it) finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At… read more
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 199 pp.
ISBN: 9781558614277
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she's jaded by her studies and… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Reality merges with fantasy in this hilarious comic novel about the world of radio soap operas and the pitfalls of forbidden passion by the bestselling author of The Storyteller. Sexy, sophisticated, older Aunt Julia, now… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In La tía Tula, Unamuno paints a memorable portrait of the indomitable Aunt Tula, who fulfills her maternal desires on her own terms.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A young scholar, employed by an aged widow to edit her husband's memoirs, falls in love with her niece in this novella of horror and beauty.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz's youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann--a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought… read more
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Writer Aliza Abravanel races to finish her final novel before her mind deteriorates. The last living speaker of a language is confronted with the disappearance of his culture. Through the construction of an esoteric theater of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A boiled-down gem of a Marías story about how Elvis (in Acapulco to film a movie) and his hard-drinking entourage abandon their interpreter in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals after insults start to fly. When the local… read more