Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending themes of free will and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a retired couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Weighed down by decades of grief... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parents' dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations. The only constant in her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr"-- 1968. After shooting Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray has evaded authorities, driven to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Luis Machi is an Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A loathsome and hilarious Argentinian oligarch, innocent of nothing except murder, finds an unidentifiable corpse handcuffed in the trunk of his car, and must find a way to keep out of jail.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lilus Kikus, was erroneously first labeled a children's book because it had a young girl as protagonist, it included illustrations, and the author was an unknown woman. Accompanying Lilus Kikus in this first American edition are... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women is an ode and an incentive. This book brings together ten transcendental Dominican women writers who have lived or live outside of the Dominican Republic. They are: Camila Henríquez Ureña,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After leaving Peru to pursue graduate school north of the Arctic circle, Claudia Ulloa Donoso began blogging about insomnia. Not hers, necessarily - the blog was never defined as fact or fiction. Her blog posts became the bones... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) They're not pets. Not ghosts or robots. These are kentukis, and they are in your home. They're everywhere. They're watching you... They've infiltrated apartments in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Sierra Leone, town... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When pastry chef Nestor Chaffino turns up dead at a party at the mansion of art dealer Ernesto Teldi, the party guests all become suspects in the crime when it turns out that Nestor was threatening to reveal some dark secrets.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When a pastry chef is found dead in a walk-in freezer in the midst of a party he's catering, there is no shortage of suspects.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Poet, writer and translator Cecilia Pavón emerged in the late 1990s as one of the most prolific and central figures of the young Argentine literary scene--the so-called "Generation of the 90s": artists and writers whose... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "I'm sick of you punks," Micaela said. "And I'm warning you now. I'm going to get you for that murder!" In the title story, the Latino community in East L.A. suffers horrible gang-related violence. Children are killed in the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "Begins to fuck with your head from its very first word."--Toby Litt. "Navidad & Matanza could be the hallucinogenic amalgamation of a César Aira plot with setting and characters conceived by Bolaño--if written using Oulipo-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sketching fresh interpretations of the sociocultural landscape of the United States, reowned Costa Rican author Uriel Quesada follows characters dealing with bureaucracy and business efficiency, corruption and abuse, all in vivid... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When his marriage and career fall apart, a young lawyer sets out on a desperate mission to recapture the promise of his youth. His attempt leaves him stranded between a past he no longer recognizes and a life that's no longer his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.