Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Chronicle of San Gabriel explores an isolated rural community from the perspective of a city dweller. After his mother's death, Lucho, a teenager, is sent from Lima to stay with his relatives at the San Gabriel hacienda; there... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms, Cleopatra... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Closed for Repairs is a series of eleven vignettes that depict Cuban ingenuity in the face of urban problems. Each solution is framed with humor and irony and gives a glimpse of life on the island today. In a clever fashion,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted readers around the world with his exquisitely crafted prose. Brimming with unforgettable characters and set in exotic locales, his fiction... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When a bookmobile visits Luis' neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he and the other children of Villa Nueva discover a joy they cannot help but bring back home.Illustrated by Rosana Faría & Carla Tabora
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) 1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with Menéndez, the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) 1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with Menéndez, the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Commander Mendoza is a novel written by Juan Valera and published in 1893. The book is set in the early 19th century and tells the story of a Spanish naval commander named Don Alonso Mendoza. Mendoza is a proud and honorable... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Daily conversations in outdoor cafés with cultured friends can help make reality a little more real. Unfortunately, however, during one such conversation, one man spots a gold Rolex watch on a TV soap opera's goatherd. This... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Exiled in Tangiers, cut off from home and country, the narrator of Count Julian rants against the homeland he was forced to leave: Spain. The second novel in Juan Goytisolo's trilogy (including Marks of Identity and Juan the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Helen Lane.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cousins, widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina, who are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals, including illegal abortions... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's... mostrar más