Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) La Grande--Saer's final novel, which is also a fantastic entry-point to his world--centers around two related stories: that of Gutiérrez, his sudden departure from Argentina thirty years before, and his equally mysterious return... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, withstanding brutal torture... 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: (WorldCat) Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in post-revolutionary Havana in the late '50s. He has superhero fantasies, hangs around with the neighborhood kids, smokes cigarettes, tells very lame jokes. 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) A psychoanalyst tries to help a young man find happiness and fulfillment by telling him a story each day in an effort to provide a better understanding of his hopes, dreams, fears, and relationships.
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: (WorldCat) These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parents' dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her... 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