Editorial: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Ciudad: New York
Año de publicación: 2018
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 104 págs.
ISBN: 9781936932245
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with the gang leader and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Larva is an account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.Contents: Sensini ; Henry Simon Leprince ; Enrique Martín ; A literary... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Last Night of Carnival, a collection of stories by turns erotic, surreal, and provocative, comprises an exile aesthetic, where the speaker is not only an exile from his homeland, but also from the stale middle class values of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist. Fired from almost every job he's held--usually for paying more attention to literature than work--he sets himself up in a rundown shack... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Long considered by many scholars to be the first picaresque novel (or the precursor of all such novels), Lazarillo de Tormes made its initial appearance in Spain in the middle of the 16th century, on the heels of an era of novels... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents: Leaf storm -- The... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of seven short stories written between 1957 and 1968 by twentieth-century Colombian-born author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Contents: Leaf storm -- The... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) It is Sylvia's sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin--not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: David Trueba ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Follows four characters through the maze of contemporary Madrid as a combination of a murder, a car crash and secret affair causes their lives to intersect and changes the course of their individual destinies.
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) Carmen Boullosa is one of Mexico's most acclaimed writers, and Leaving Tabasco tells of the coming-of-age of Delmira Ulloa, raised in an all-female home in Agustini, in the Mexican province of Tabasco. Agustini is not an... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Carmen Boullosa ; translated from the Spanish by Geoff Hargreaves.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An intricately wrought, multilayered novel, "Lies" ranges from the present to deep in the past. Told through two narratives, the stories are both brutal and exciting. Together these stories illuminate the importance of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr"-- 1968. After shooting Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray has evaded authorities, driven to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lilus Kikus, was erroneously first labeled a children's book because it had a young girl as protagonist, it included illustrations, and the author was an unknown woman. Accompanying Lilus Kikus in this first American edition are... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When pastry chef Nestor Chaffino turns up dead at a party at the mansion of art dealer Ernesto Teldi, the party guests all become suspects in the crime when it turns out that Nestor was threatening to reveal some dark secrets.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When a pastry chef is found dead in a walk-in freezer in the midst of a party he's catering, there is no shortage of suspects.