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) In 1949 Garcia Marquez witnessed the opening of several tombs, one of which contained the skeleton of a young girl with 22 metres of red hair. This novel recreates her legend as a popular saint. Marquez won the Nobel Prize for... mostrar más
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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ten stories complete this collection of emotionally charged characters connected through a complex interweaving of repeated themes. Their tales include the humorous dynamics of a tour group in Italy; the haunting reality of a man... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "On Captivity" is the first translation into English of "Del Cautiverio," Manuel Ciges Aparicio's account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabana fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98). Ciges... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first English translation of the self-proclaimed 'Viscount' Emilio Lascano Tegui--a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right --On Elegance While Sleeping is the macabre novel, part... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The novel "opens with the discovery of a rotting corpse in the marshes on the outskirts of Olba, Spain--a town wracked by despair after the burst of the economic bubble, and a microcosm of a world of defeat, debt, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Once Upon a Time (Bomb) is a memoir of a young boy growing up in El Salvador. It tells the story of Alfonso Duque the Thirteenth, a youngster from a poverty-stricken family and a budding poet. Surrounded by hovering women -... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One Hundred Bottles, with its intersecting characters and unresolved whodunits, can be read as a murder mystery. But it's really a survivor's story. In a voice that blends gossip, storytelling, and literature, Zthe vivacious... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Probably García Márquez finest and most famous work. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.