Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of the childhood, both real and imagined, of a girl who journeys from the loneliness of an orphanage to the poor neighborhood where a singular family takes her in: Grandmother Barbara, a woman with a powerful presence;... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An extremely slender, sad tale by Bellatin recounts a gay man's reflections on the waning days of sexual excess and the specter of death wrought by AIDS, though here AIDS is a mysterious, nameless plague. Formerly a stylist in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mario Bellatin's complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic. In a large, unnamed city, a strange, highly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Thanks to her wealthy and well-connected family, twenty-six-year-old Marta is used to getting whatever she wants. And what she wants is a good time. That is, until her father's wife--the woman who raised her--becomes ill.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Part bildungsroman, part ghost story, part revenge novel, Before tells the story of a woman who returns to the landscape of her childhood to overcome the fear that held her captive as a girl. This powerful exploration of the path... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Belated Declaration of Love to Séraphine Louis brings together a panoramic survey of Venezuelan narrative, the original Spanish text of eight short stories by the late writer, with full English translation, and a focused... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A kinetic, globetrotting novel following three siblings--Jewish and downwardly mobile--from 2001 to 2034, as they come of age against the major crises of the 21st century.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tomás Nevinson—the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tomás returns to Madrid from his studies at... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of Toto, a boy growing up in a small town in Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s. Toto is obsessed with the movies he sees with his mother, and the book focuses on the influence popular culture has on ordinary life.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Between Two Silences / Entre Dos Silencios is a book of remarkable short stories by the great Dominican writer Hilma Contreras. These short stories (some very short) are often mysterious and quirky, with a shimmer of heat and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) As he neared the end of his troubled life, Horacio Quiroga penned a collection of stories that straddle thresholds, the ones between life and death, between sanity and madness, between man and nature. Partly set in the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The universal dilemma between truth and survival pulsates in the plot that takes place at the end of the 1980s in the city of Havana. Boris, a young lieutenant in Cuban counter-intelligence meets Sebastián, who is bringing as a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human... mostrar más
Editorial: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
ISBN: 9781419744082
Resumen/Reseñas: (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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "Written in secrecy during the terrible final years of World War II (1942 - 1945), Birds of Fire, A Filipino War Novel is an intense testimony to the courage of the human spirit facing the cruelty of military occupation. Jesus... mostrar más