Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy. This study examines the cultural impact of this... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In this "allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which [the author] was about to be permanently self-exiled," Cortázar tells the story of Juan and Clara who should be studying for their exam, but... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) For the first time in English, Severo Sarduy's most autobiographical work, centered on two transvestites who undergo oppositional sexual surgeries (one is castrated, the other is given a new member). This convention-defying,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The Flower from Castile Trilogy opens in 1491 during the tumultuous unification of Spain under Catholicism. The battle for the conquest of Granada, which was held by the Islamic Moors for 700 years, empties Spain’s coffers and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Fog is a fresh new translation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla, first published in 1914. An early example of modernism's challenge to the conventions of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Fog shocked critics but... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) While Henry Ford, safe in Detroit, schemes to produce his own rubber for the Ford Motor Company, Horacio is the man who struggles to run Fordlandia, the rubber plantation in the jungles of the Amazon.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A novel of love, treachery, and intrigue, Foreign Propery tells of a Mexican family's lost ancestral home and examines the historic relationship between Mexico and Texas. The story is set in San Antonio.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.Written by Silvina Ocampo ; foreword by Carmen Boullosa
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's "program" is always... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A novel-in-stories set in mid-twenty-first-century dystopian Havana, Freeway narrates the adventure of two misfits wandering the construction site of a colossal freeway-to-be - a mysterious feat of engineering that slices through... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This novel pays homage to the solidarity of women's friendship and to the importance of the rituals that demarcate our lives. The four principal characters, lifelong friends, are not famous, or exceptionally beautiful, or... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Playing opportunely with realism and fiction, the sensational young Cuban writer Pedro de Jesus interlinks six stories in an inventive narrative of psychological darkness and sexual intricacy. In this tour de force of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the... mostrar más