Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) These dazzling stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls erase the fine line between fantasy and reality, and establish her as an impressive literary voice. In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) When this novel was first published, Dominican readers were stunned by its dark, poetic power. At last, someone had given voice to the profound sense of loss of national and personal identity felt by young Dominicans in the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Provided by publisher) Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own people. Latin American... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Claudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social consider "Alarm," in which every sound and moment is... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Claudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social conditions: consider "Alarm," in which every sound and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A masterful bilingual collection of poems rooted in K'iche' Maya culture illustrating all the ways meaning manifests within our world, and how best to behold it.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her with an absence of feeling. Disoriented, she wanders with her partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Set over the course of an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a State of Memory is a novelistic memoir about exile, displacement, and return. Tununa Mercado explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile: the splintering of her identity... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) With meticulous observation and the seductive skill of a great storyteller, Vargas Llosa lures the reader into the shadow of perversion that, little by little, darkens the extraordinary happiness and harmony of his characters.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A compilation of Lorca's poetry and prose, emphasizing Lorca's notion of the duende, the "earth spirit of irrationality and death."Contents: Deep song -- Note on the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Assigned to identify Hitler's top advisor on the atomic bomb, young physicist Francis Bacon encounters a survivor of the coup attempt against Hitler before entering into a complicated relationship with a mysterious woman.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "In Spite of teh Dark Silence," presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporáneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In these renegade stories, set in Cuba during the hard times following the collapse of the Soviet Union, people go to work only to find that their jobs no longer exist. They joke and tell stories from the past, live aimlessly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, lived a mysterious, ascetic life far from the limelight of literary circles. She has had a profound effect on those around her: Daniel, an architect and her neighbor and friend, unhappy in his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A minor traffic accident becomes a catalyst for an unexpected bond among a human rights scholar in Brooklyn, his Chilean tenant, and an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, who explore the difficulties of immigrants and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a... mostrar más