Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Petra Leyva has begun to write a novel about the Sanctuary Movement when she hears that her widowed, womanizing father has set fire to his house in a drunken rage. Overwhelmed by family memories, Petra begins a journey of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Federico Gamboa ; translated and edited by John Charles Chasteen.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Juan José Saer's Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine-year-old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Jorge Volpi's international bestseller Season of Ash puts a human face on the earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century: the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Soviet communism and the rise of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Can flowers speak? Can they remember? Doctor Patricio Gallardo begins to wonder when his son Gregorio abruptly cuts off their unusually close relationship. In the pages of this book, an intricate web of emotions gradually is... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Seeing Red describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke which leaves her blind. It charts her journey through hospitals and an increased dependency on... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first English translation of Unamuno's first novel, published in 1897, when he was 33. Its setting is the Basque country of northern Spain during the Second Carlist War (1874--1876), a conflict he lived through as a child.... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Miguel de Unamuno ; translated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick with Anthony Kerrigan ; annotated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick ; with an introduction by Allen Lacy.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The three remarkable pieces of fiction included in this volume are not so much novelets, novels, as nivolas, a form invented by Unamuno.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) An alcoholic, atheist, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to edit the testimonies of the survivors of slaughtered Indian villages. The writer's job is to tidy... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book -- at once fiction, history, and memoir -- that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book-at once fiction, history, and memoir-that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book -- at once fiction, history, and memoir -- that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) On September 11, 2001 the world watched from the outside as thousands of people died. This novel portrays what it might have been like for those on the inside. The fear, the anguish, the heartache, and the human side of this... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Seven Against Georgia is a group of "testimonials" in which seven flamboyant Spanish gay men, adopting such over-the-top noms de guerre as Herr Betty Honey and Pamela Poodle, respond to sodomy laws by sending their stories of sex... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) SEVEN VIEWS OF THE SAME LANDSCAPE is a beautiful collection of coming-of-age tales that unfold in post-Civil War Barcelona. Told as remembered episodes largely from a child's perspective, the young Sara is entranced by the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The monotonous life of a male bookseller is shaken by a consummate female book thief named Severina. As though in an obsessive dream with blurred lines between the rational and irrational, the bookseller delves deeper and deeper... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Three men, including a railway signalman, a World War I hero and Nazi general, and a master chess player, find key events in their lives intertwining as the events of the First and Second World Wars thrust them together at the... mostrar más