Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, awakens one morning to read in the Santiago newspaper that her best friend, Violeta, has been involved in a brutal act of violence. Overwhelmed with regret and plagued with guilt… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) After an unexpected incident triggers his first anguish attack in months, Antón is dead set on putting an end once and for all to his woeful days.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) In 1904 Mexican author Manuel Sánchez Mármol published a short novel entitled Antón Pérez. It chronicles the origins and adventures of its eponymous hero, a poor and ethnically mixed young man from a small town in the remote… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaño’s fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolaño’s enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) A police sergeant searches for someone (perhaps a hunchback) and a nameless young woman (red-haired, a drug addict, a witness) sodomized by a cop--or is it the narrator? A collation of 56 "scenes" set in 1980 Barcelona.
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Julián Castrodad, ex-reporter and aspiring novelist, takes a job working the night shift at the Motel Tulán. The guest go largely unnoticed until the morning one is found dead and two are gone missing.
Summary/Reviews: () Anywhere, Anytime deals with the consequences of war as they affect art, culture, thought, and human feelings. Through 15 short pieces set in different historical periods, the author offers a critical view on the incompatibility of the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) As the rules of civilization crumble, a lawyer, a pilot, and a nurse become comrades-in-arms in the fight against extinction. But not every enemy wears a rotting face, and anyone who doesn't have your back just might have your… read more
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
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Artforum is certainly one of César Aira's most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his compulsion to collect Artforum magazine, this is not about art so much as it is… 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