Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a novel based on the Bible and ancient traditions, Adam and Eve discover the world around them, react to their punishment, and learn to adjust to the outside world, where it is necessary to kill to survive.
Más información: Responsibility: Gioconda Belli ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this modern age, when the means of communication have turned individual and collective history into a spectacle, literature is the privileged space of subjectivity. This book allows us to peer into the fascinating inner world... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) "Sagrario died in May, after much suffering." So begins Espido Freire's haunting novel IRLANDA, with a sentence that is bright and troubled at once, just like its hero. After the death of her sister Sagrario, young Natalia has... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ischia is a portrait of an unnamed narrator and protagonist who, along with her friends, wanders through the margins of different cities, especially Buenos Aires, searching for something unknown and seemingly unfathomable. An... mostrar más
Editorial: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2020
Nº de páginas: 581 págs.
ISBN: 9780063021778
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor, Zarité - known as Tété - was born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue. Growing up amid brutality and fear, Tété found solace in the traditional rhythms... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.
Más información: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1908, under orders to defend a tiny, isolated Pacific atoll from an improbable French invasion, Mexican captain Ramon Arnaud, his young bride, Alicia, and eleven soldiers and their families set sail for the so-called Isle of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1908, under orders to defend a tiny, isolated Pacific atoll from an improbable French invasion, Mexican captain Ramon Arnaud, his young bride, Alicia, and eleven soldiers and their families set sail for the so-called Isle of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In wondrous, singing translation by Mike Soto, these spare, striking poems by Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez explore the infinite solitude of the universe. The poems of Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez reflect a world precariously dependent on, but also... mostrar más
Editorial: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2019
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 229 págs.
ISBN: 9780062936868
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Children enjoy typical activities at a birthday party. Includes pronunciation guides for English and Spanish speakers.Illustrated by Rémy Simard.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Long gone are the monuments and the traditions of the people. Long gone are the sacrifices and ceremonial offerings to the old gods. Most Mesoamericans have either been killed or enslaved, and Spain owns the land. Now, there are... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From his small travel agency tucked away in an area of New York City known as Little Colombia, the "Godfather of Jackson Heights" does far more than make travel arrangements. Fernando Padron is a social service fixer to many of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Telling from Zero" ("Contar desde zero") of which... mostrar más