Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the rites at the Catholic church where he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in residence are the sexton Celeste Machado, his goddaughter Sabina Cruz, and three... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Evelio Rosero ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom.
Resumen/Reseñas: () Like the rhythm of the chachacha, the three short stories in this collection are marked by repetition and contrast. They all begin with the same scene, but each is the genesis of a different love story corresponding to three distinct... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A well-connected lawyer and his deranged wife die in a mysterious fire. Their fate, however, is much more than material for a whodunit. Murder, dictatorship, love, eroticism, torture, and the healing power of art:... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Manuel Marcos ; translated by Tracy Karl Lewis.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In these masterly vignettes, Fuentes explores Tolstoy's classic observation that "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." In "A Family Like Any Other," each member of the Pagan family lives... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "The true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it" -- Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) These humorous and poignant stories that illustrate everyday life in contemporary Havana will challenge the reader's assumptions about the Cuban reality. Mirta Yanez is a Havana-born poet, novelist, critic, and extraordinary... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of stories by current and former residents of Havana that relate tales of ambiguous moralities, collective cruelty, and the damage incurred by self-preservation at all costs.Contents: ... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of seventeen short stories, presented in Spanish and English, that examine the lives of Chicano men and women in the contemporary United States.Contents:He walked in and sat down -- Entró y se sentó -- Road detours... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A forlorn psychoanalyst; a cultural historian exploring the possibility of life after death; a middle-aged couple that schedules a rendezvous with a younger version of itself; a man who compensates for his phobia of death and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Publisher's description: Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events in early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Elena Poniatowska ; translated from the Spanish by Deanna Heikkinen.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Based on Josefina Borquez, a working-class woman whose difficult life spanned some of the seminal events in early-twentieth-century Mexican history, Poniatowska's Jesusa is a tough, coarse-mouthed, cantankerous character who... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A novel about Hitler's persecution of Polish Jews all the way to Central America, and how they fought against his plans for their destruction. The novel also reveals these immigrant's internal struggles for their personal... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the English-language debut novel of one of Mexico's most poignant writers, a man guilty of a minor offense finds himself caught between the tedium of his temperate city and the growing menace of crime there. After an accident-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty), from the unrelentingly grim 1980s to October 2011... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof landowner--and the mysteries... mostrar más