Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence--sometimes directly, sometimes only in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Spaces in Between is a collection of short stories. Social commentary is expressed not through a direct invasive dialogue, but rather by evocative introspections of prose directly linked to the political and economical status... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Explore Spain's rich literary landscape with some of the country's best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these 18 stories, many of which appear in English for the first time, transport the reader through Spain's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include "El Hechicero," by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) These 12 classic short stories reflect the idealistic and exotic appeal of a golden age in Spanish literature. Published from the1830s to the 1860s, the heyday of the Romantic Era, they remain popular with readers of every... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Collects seventeen short stories written by prominent Latin American authors from the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, along with their English translations on facing pages.Contents: ... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane. Far... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn Sarajevo. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the authorities arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal stories and poems is found. These... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Stories of Enchantment consists of seventeen stories by nine of nineteenth-century Spain's most well-known authors, and demonstrates convincingly that, although it had no Charles Perrault and no brothers Grimm, it maintained a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Over one hundred vignettes in Stories of Life and Death create haunting images of the author's favorite subjects: women in love, children coping with tragedy, eccentrics, the emotions of compassion, bitterness, envy and longing... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Love, death, betrayal, and sex intertwine and whirl with New York City and Havana beating in the background. In unpredictable tales woven with psychological and political significance, the protagonists struggle to transform... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The 12 stories in this shimmering collection poignantly depict South Americans adrift in Europe. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of narrative sorcery... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Back cover) Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A 1599 Roman tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo represents the way the world changed in their times, in a novel that goes from the execution of Anne Boleyn to Mexico after the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Teresa Porzecanski writes from Uruguay about the multicultural experience of Jewish immigrants in Montevideo. Her exotic characters from Europe, Africa, and the New World bring together and struggle with the mixture of... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Teresa Porzecanski ; Sun inventions translated by Johnny Payne ; Perfumes of Carthage (Perfumes de Cartago) translated by Phyllis Silverstein ; introduction by Ilan Stavans.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Set in a distant future, after the invention of faster-than-light space travel has propelled a still-immature mankind into the far corners of the Milky Way, the novel features creatures of immense variety--... mostrar más