Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) More popular in their time than Cervantes' masterpiece, Don Quixote, Exemplary Stories are a collection of heroic tales that blend satire, irony, realism, and humor. This translation, by Walter D. Kelly, features 13 tales... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) At the height of Maria de Zayas' popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. This book gathers a representative sample of seven stories,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist -- the Parisian "Monster of Le Sentier"--Is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Peter Bush.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Life in a rural and isolated town in the Ecuadorian mountains. Outsiders occupy the communal land and local people fight them.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A swashbuckling tale set in the Caribbean world at the time of the French revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure who led the naval assault to take back the island of Guadeloupe from the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One of Cuba's-and Latin America's-greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Face of the Earth, Heart of the Sky is a testimonial novel of the Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s that movingly relates the victimization of the indigenous peoples by the National Army and the guerrillas. Weaving together... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Family Album is Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's rollicking follow up to her acclaimed English-language debut, Poso Wells. Alemán is known for her spirited and sardonic take on the fatefully interconnected--and often highly... mostrar más
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) In Festival, the genius postmodern sci-fi filmmaker Alec Steryx is the star guest of a film festival in an unnamed country. But he's brought a surprise: his nonagenarian mother. Everyone is baffled. Why? Half-blind and terminally... 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) 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 seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, 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: (WorldCat) Originally published in Spanish in 1981, Fiesta in April is a story about political prisoners, and the abuses and psychological torture they face. As opposed to using conventional prose, the author weaves dramatic poetry into a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Figures of Wood is a work of fiction that questions reality and sanity through the mind of L, a person confined to a sanatorium.
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