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
Editorial: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2020
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 117 págs.
ISBN: 9781936932825
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cockfight is the debut short story collection by Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero. Over thirteen stories, Cockfight explores the brutality and everyday violence contained in the structures of home, family, gender, and... 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) Holed away in a cabin in the Pyrenees, the world-famous and enigmatic mathematician Alexander Grothendieck is working furiously on a final project. But what exactly is this monumental, mysterious undertaking? Why did this man,... 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: (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) In the 24th century, extragalactic beings arrive in the Milky Way with extraordinary new technologies. Josué, a sexual ambassador, must call upon every ounce of his talent to seal the deal for his colony and all of humanity.
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: (Amazon.com) Antique salvager, counterfeiter, and former art forger Jota knows his newest commission pays suspiciously well, but it’s too easy to turn down. All he has to do is find an old clock that apparently has disappeared after being... mostrar más
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