Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lacking all memory of the first five years of her life because of a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised by her regal grandmother Paulina and eventually seeks to confront the mystery of her past, in a novel set in late-... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her overwhelming grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events that occurred when she was a child in San Francisco's Chinatown. When she becomes... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Aurora del Valle, the daughter of a privileged family in 1890s Chile, sets out to unlock the family secrets that shaped her childhood.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Delicado and her perennial sidekick, Sgt. Fermin Garzon, are thrown into a high-profile case-the murder inquiry into a much reviled gossip columnist, Ernestos Valdes-after the investigators originally assigned to it are pulled... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Stories of love, war, and vengeance, focusing on the tiny, remote village of Tamoga-- a place where vendettas are passed down from generation to generation, and where violence has left its trace in every corner
Más información: Responsibility: Julián Ríos ; translated by Nick Caistor ; with a forword by the author.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Prodigies explores the story of the poet Novalis's birthplace in the German town of Weissenfels after it is converted into a boarding house. Moving, subtle, and full of wit, irony, and dreams, this novel fills the house with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women -- an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of the sixty-four poest, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico'... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) "Puppet is a complex, challenging, and ultimately compelling narrative. Revolving around the Chicano movement of the 1970s and 1980s, it tells the story of the murder of Puppet and the subsequent police cover-up. Just as... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) Simón Cardoso had been dead thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, spotted him at lunchtime in the lounge bar in Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory. Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, vanished during a trip to map an... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Tomás Eloy Martínez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Captain Alatriste attempts to rescue the daughter of a friend from a convent, but finds himself involved in a political and religious conspiracy connected with the Inquisition.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A desperate father hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. The priest has threatened to reveal that the man's family is of Jewish descent, so he has no... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Hired to rescue a man's daughter from a convent where a powerful corrupt priest is forcing her to be his personal concubine, Alatriste finds himself thrust into a religious and political conspiracy with ties to the highest levels... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Queen Cocaine takes place amid the violence that rules everyday life in Colombia. In the remote Pacific Coast jungle, a region of incessant rain that is ravaged by the drug trade and by civil war, the army, the guerillas, and the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (José Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa). It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno--a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows--and a poor family... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In the story "Ratfish", the main character is an illegal immigrant, a house painter who lives traumatized by the unrelenting harassment from the INS. Two word "ratfish", as it can be clear seen, is a new coinage composed of two... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Tom Wright, an American CIA agent, is sent into Guatemala to rescue an Australian banker who has been kidnapped by a guerrilla organization known as EGP.