Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Two Chilean university students, Emilia and Julio, become inseparable lovers until their relationship changes and Emilia mysteriously disappears from Chile.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves, and try new identities on for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
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: (WorldCat) Out of love and desperation, a man suddenly sees the possibility of changing his life completely and goes for it. It's a daring move, and as with every bold venture, there's a price to pay.
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) "A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family-a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's unexplained death-occupies... 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