Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Zarco the Blue-eyed Bandit (1901) by the Mexican nationalist Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1843–1893) is one of the earliest Latin American novels written by an Indian. Altamirano, whose childhood language was Nahuatl, received... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for its marginal characters who seek... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) How do you draw an affair? A family? Can a Venn diagram show the ways overlaps turn into absences, tree rings tell us what happens when mothers leave? Can we fall in love according to the hop skip of an acrostic? Empty Set is a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A writer begins keeping a notebook of handwriting exercises hoping that, if he is able to improve his penmanship, his character will improve too. What begins as a mere physical exercise is filled involuntarily with reflections... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: () An excellent addition to intermediate or advanced-level Spanish language or literature courses, En la Ocho y la Doce is a collection of microfictions and longer stories that present diverse perspectives on the experience of Cuban... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Thelonius Monk (not his real name) travels to Russia and meets Linda Evangelista (not her real name) in Saint Petersburg. They journey to Yalta, where he promises that he will make her red hair famous in the fashion magazines.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This volume traces the history of Latin American theater, including the Nuyorican and Chicano theaters of the United States, and surveys its history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Sections cover individual Latin... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) These are fifteen stories of what it feels like to be different. The author writes about her characters' bodies, desires, and experiences. With a shifting gaze, they explore the profundity of otherness, seeking out both... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Argentine native Hermann has mostly retired from her career as a scholar of Spanish literature in the US. She assembled ten stories in Viajes en lapalabra y en la imagen , which was published by Ediciones de Arte Gaglanone in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This translation proposes to offer the English language reading public the opportunity to come to know the work of this remarkable Spanish author, Luis Goytisolo. Luis Goytisolo's prize winning novel, Statue with Doves, first... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: () A little-known gem of utopian/dystopian fiction published in 1919, this novel tells the story of a eugenically engineered society of the future. Taking up important challenges of modern society - population growth, reproductive behaviour... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In the spring of 2009, New York University's journal of creative writing, Washington Square Review, published a selection from Euler's Conjecture to much critical acclaim, featuring it at the issue's launching party. This novel... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother toils, and herself in service from an early age, the enchanting and ever-enchanted Eva Luna escapes oppression through story telling. Rolf Carle flees Germany for South... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When Nieve Guerra finds herself caught between the tides of her parents' turbulent relationship and a country torn apart by political unrest, she begins recording the intimate and harsh details of her life within the pages of her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A man risks his life by carefully forging bibliographic references in a parallel Barcelona; at the Cyclotech, a woman strives to keep the storytelling different engine safe from ignorant hands that could get words lost; off-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Setting out for Shanghai to settle the affairs of her recently deceased husband, Spanish painter Elvira finds herself swept up in a centuries-old quest to find the lost treasure of China's first emperor.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Spanish painter Elvira De Poulain travels to China to settle her dissolute husband's estate which she finds consists of a beautiful box with clues to the burial site of China's first Emperor. She sets out with colorful companions... mostrar más