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.
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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Stories from northern Mexico, the apocalyptic urban zones and desert landscapes just south of the border.Contents: Real life ; The darkest night ; Just don't take the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) It is the late 1970s and Argentina is wracked by the worst excesses of its “Dirty Wars,” as thousands have disappeared or have been tortured and murdered by a dying dictatorship. Luz Goldman, on the other hand, lives in Buenos... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Luz Goldman, the narrator of No One Said a Word, grows up in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the seventies when Argentina is ruled by a military dictatorship. But politics is only peripheral in Paula... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Joaquin Buitrago, a photographer in the Castaneda Insane Asylum, believes a patient is a prostitute he knew years earlier. His obsession in confirming Matilde's identity leads him to explore the clinics records, and her tragic... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lorenza and her son, Mateo, return to Buenos Aires as they try to find Ramon, Mateo's father, who was a political radical with Lorenza in Argentina's "Dirty War," as Lorenza deals with her memories of the past and Mateo, who is... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Laura Restrepo ; translated from the Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Barcelona, 1986: The dictatorship is over and life is free and easy. But what if you can't forget the seventies? Elisa's troubled past comes back to her in the form of her ex-husband, Arnau, who needs her help to exonerate a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico/US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Toñanes is just one of the many inglorious soldiers eking a small existence on the land he helped conquer. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who calls... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In Not Myself without You, a working-class Puerto Rican family of the 1950s lives surrounded by spirits, ghosts, and witches, a result of incantations performed in their living room. Chronicling nearly two decades of the family... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) When Eliah Al-Saud and Matilde Martinez meet on a flight to Paris, they have little in common. Eliah is the rich and powerful son of a Saudi prince, and the owner of a French security company―actually a front for mercenary and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Of Forgotten Times tells the story of women from two different families - one rich and the other mired in poverty - whose only point in common is their connection to the ruthless dictator of their Caribbean homeland. It is at... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first English translation of Reyna Carranza's historical novel of dynastic decline in twentieth-century Argentina.
Más información: Responsibility: Reyna Carranza ; translated from the Spanish, with an introduction by Graciela Lucero-Hammer ; with a foreword by Fernando Reati.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in the Spanish colonial era, a doomed love affair takes place between a young girl who is thought to be possessed and the priest who is sent to oversee her exorcism.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A woman reporter in a Latin American country and a photographer are sent on a routine assignment. The two uncover a hideous crime, the revelation of which could challenge the terrorism of the military regime.