Resumen/Reseñas: (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,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, Call Me Brooklyn follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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:... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Alicia Steimberg ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This a novel narrating in vivid and passionate detail the life of a Spanish family in America at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. A father and a mother holding tight to three small children seeking peace, shelter, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Wounded seventeenth-century Spanish soldier Alatriste works as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid, but when his latest job takes an unexpectedly deadly turn, he realizes he is in the employ of one of the Spanish Inquisition's most... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In early 17th century Spain Captain Diego Alatriste spares the life of the two Englishmen he is hired to kill by the president of the Holy Tribunal of the Inquisition and sets in motion a series of events affecting the courts of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Captain Alatriste is the story of a fictional seventeenth-century Spanish soldier who lives as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid. Needing gold to pay off his debts, Alatriste and another hired blade are paid to ambush two travelers... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) For fifty years Andres Yasin has held a grudge against J.T. Bunker for an alleged affair with Andres' mother. Will the truth finally come out after all these years?
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) For fifty years, Andres Yasin has carried a grudge against J.T. Bunker. Now, Bunker, eighty-two years old and dying of cancer, wants to tell his side of a story, a story of his affair with Andres's mother. As a child Andres knew... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Beto Milanes, the night watchman at a graveyard in the Florida resort town of Caracol Beach, is a guilt-ridden Cuban war veteran. Tormented by memories and hallucinations, he yearns to die but is unable to take his own life.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first book to be published in English by the award-winning Cuban writer Eliseo Alberto, this gripping kaleidoscopic novel tells about madness, love, death, and the collision of strangers' lives on one fateful night in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Carmen and her brother are sent to live with relatives after their family breaks apart. Imprisoned in a sprawling house ruled by Grandmother and Aunt Malva - table dictators who strive to maintain absolute control over their... mostrar más