Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Beyond the Island recreates the Galapagos Islands as a paradise poised between destruction and redemption, its inhabitants as varied as an Elizabethan pirate, an expert on the prickly pear, and a baker infatuated with a… read more
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
ISBN: 9781419744082
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A little girl and her abuela tend to an injured bird they find in the snow, allowing it to fly around the living room until it is ready to be released.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The journalist named no names. He claimed nothing false. He was not a radical, not a communist, less interested in politics than in writing itself. Nevertheless, one sentence, "The real cause of this crisis is corruption at… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) New York City. Three A.M. The present. A man emerges from a building, a revolver in his pocket. Upstairs, in her apartment, alone in her bed, lies a woman - an actress the man met for the first time earlier that evening. She… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Luisa Valenzuela ; translation by Toby Talbot.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Set in the bullfighting world of Valencia, Spain, the story follows the rise and fall of Juan Gallardo, a talented but impoverished young man who becomes a famous matador. Gallardo's success brings him wealth, fame, and the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) The tale of a young writer who falls for a woman who disappears while he is pretending to edit a book that doesn't exist, it brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, and life. And with a beguiling form that… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Boxwood might perhaps be best described as a kind of whirlwind: a vortex of marvelous writing about folklore, traditions, superstitions, cooking, nautical disasters on the Coast of Death (ships from afar spilling cargoes of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodie's Report," he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of erotic fiction from Latin American authors.Contents: The killing of the saints — Alex Abella ; The infinite plan — Isabel Allende ; In the name of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "A darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, and believing himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology"-- Cuba in the 1970s. Ten-year-old Rauli lives in hostile world:… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The granddaughter of Russian Jews who emigrated to Argentina, and the daughter of parents indifferent to Judaism who embrace Argentine society, a young Argentine woman is in a cultural limbo, caught between one world she cannot… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Alicia Steimberg ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The euphoric idealism of grassroots reform and the tragic reality of revolutionary failure are at the center of this speculative novel that opens with a real historical event. On October 2, 1968, 10 days before the Summer… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The 16 stories in this collection deal with confrontation, struggle, and survival amidst the unforgiving violence of nature. Set in the hauntingly beautiful and dangerously remote lands of southern Patagonia and Tierra… read more