Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in "My Two Worlds" is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Sergio Chejfec ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret B. Carson ; introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com)Nada has been acclaimed as one of the best accounts of life in post-civil war Spain. It is a work that reflects the psychological and sociological effects of war on a society, particularly on its youth. It also... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In Barcelona, in the wake of the Spanish Civil War, Andrea, a young university student, moves into a strange, gothic house inhabited by a volatile array of aunts and uncles in order to attend college.Introduction by Mario Vargas... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Loosely based on the author's own life, Nada is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Andrea, an impoverished 18-year-old girl, travels to Barcelona to study literature at the university. The city imposes its post-Civil War atmosphere on her impressionable mind. As the story develops, the tension between her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tour de force of black humor, composed of short biographies of imaginary pan-American authors, providing sketch character portraits that are often pathetically funny, sometimes surprisingly moving, and on occasion,... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda. Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the country of the present but she is from the country of the past, a place burdened in her memory by both personal and political tragedies. Her partner, El, is a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas’s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The “lecturer” tells... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.Contents: ... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) With the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Cuba's political future, the onslaught of tourists, and the economic upheavals in their society, Cubans face an important, perhaps epochal, moment of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Fernando del Paso ; translated by Alfonso González & Stella T. Clark.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Page 4 of cover) On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Alberto has endured political imprisonment for writings unacceptable to the Castro regime in Cuba. His nocturnal wanderings in Havana lead him from a colonial cafe, where he begins an intense romance with a young woman, to an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A truly unforgettable story, "Nights in Heaven" is a splendidly crafted tale filled with suspense, adventure, and the rich beauty of the Mexican wilderness. This thoroughly absorbing novel set in 20th Century Mexico is a blend... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mexico City becomes the setting for a bizarre mystery, as private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne investigates the death of a man entangled with a terrifying, repressive paramilitary organization.