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
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
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ainhoa lives a protected life within the walls of her grandmother's house in the neighborhood of Limones. Surrounded by a gaggle of aunts who love, correct, and teach her, Ainhoa narrates moments that evoke the powerful presence... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In Carne de Dios, renowned author Homero Aridjis transports readers to the world of María Sabina, the revered Mazatec healer, whose sacred mushroom ceremonies captivated the global imagination during the 1960s counterculture... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cars on Fire, Mónica Ramón Ríos's electric, uncompromising English-language debut, unfolds through a series of female characters-the writer, the patient, the immigrant, the professor, the student-whose identities are messy and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Draws not only upon the literary heritage of the author's native Argentina, but also upon the body of work that has been formed into a South American canon, embracing those such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Caterva (meaning 'throng' or 'horde') tells the story of seven erudite, homeless, and semi-incompetent radicals traveling from city to city in an attempt to foment a revolution: conspiring with striking workers, setting off... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Written in 1882 by Cirilo Villaverde in exile in New York City, but set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel recounts a story of the moral, political, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A Spanish Romeo and Juliet, Celestina was published in 1499 and became Spain's first-ever bestseller. Readers thrilled to the salty character of Celestina and her world of prostitutes and black magic even as they mourned the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Celia in the Revolution is the last in a series of young adult novels written by Encarnación Aragoneses, known by the pen name Elena Fortún, one of the most prolific and popular Spanish... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) These eight interludes, which Cervantes published in 1615 but never saw performed, are short, comic plays that explore the underbelly of Renaissance Spanish society. Their characters include hillbillies and con artists, pimps and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella, Changó depicts the African American experience from a perspective of gods who stand over the world and watch. The centennial anniversary release of this... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Translated into English and spanning three continents, this epic novel of the African Diaspora in the Americas recounts over five centuries of displacement and servitude. Employing multiple narrative voices and encompassing all... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help... mostrar más
Editorial: FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2025
Nº de páginas: 256 págs.
ISBN: 9780374616502
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A baroque, tropical jeremiad about how the wounds of capitalism and empire inflict themselves on the person and on the land, but linger most devastatingly in indigenous memory and language. A near-future fable about love, life,... mostrar más