Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Indian revolts in the province of Chimborazo Ecuador destroyed the family and goods of the rancher Juan Domingo Orosco, as revenge for the maltreatment and abuse of the savages. After this unfortunate event, Orosco converted... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Curfew takes place during one twenty-four hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away, and various factions are rallying to turn the event to their advantage: for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) By the author of "The Obscene Bird of the Night", "Sacred Families" and "A House in the Country", this is a story of the tragic love between an upper-middle-class radical woman and her lover who has returned after a career as a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Havana, 1957. On the same day that the mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Called by its author a "false novel," Dark Back of Time begins with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his witty and sardonic 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marías swears to be fiction, but which its "... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Javier Marias begins Dark Back of Time with the tale of the odd effects of publishing All Souls, his 1989 Oxford novel. All Souls is a book Marias swears to be fiction, but which its "characters"--The real-life... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents the "apocryphal autobiography" of author Luisa Valenzuela, who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from the ten years she lived in New York City, exploring her "dark desires," and discussing sexual fulfillment, human... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Luisa Valenzuela ; translated by Susan E. Clark.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Guido and Esmé are a young and perhaps idealistic couple when an atrocious dictatorship settles in Argentina. It begins to decimate others as young as them. Although they are not militants, the death of Esmé's sister triggers... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Editorial: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2020
Nº de páginas: 484 págs.
ISBN: 9780063021747
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, English orphan Eliza Sommers meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk with ambitious dreams. When gold is discovered in the hills of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A novel intertwining the voices of a mother and her daughter--women shaped and separated by violent historical moments--revealing unspoken parallels between the Holocaust and Argentina's "Dirty War".
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