Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1908, under orders to defend a tiny, isolated Pacific atoll from an improbable French invasion, Mexican captain Ramon Arnaud, his young bride, Alicia, and eleven soldiers and their families set sail for the so-called Isle of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In wondrous, singing translation by Mike Soto, these spare, striking poems by Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez explore the infinite solitude of the universe. The poems of Ignacio Ruiz-Pérez reflect a world precariously dependent on, but also... mostrar más
Editorial: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2019
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 229 págs.
ISBN: 9780062936868
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Children enjoy typical activities at a birthday party. Includes pronunciation guides for English and Spanish speakers.Illustrated by Rémy Simard.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Long gone are the monuments and the traditions of the people. Long gone are the sacrifices and ceremonial offerings to the old gods. Most Mesoamericans have either been killed or enslaved, and Spain owns the land. Now, there are... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From his small travel agency tucked away in an area of New York City known as Little Colombia, the "Godfather of Jackson Heights" does far more than make travel arrangements. Fernando Padron is a social service fixer to many of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, Jacob the Mutant is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Telling from Zero" ("Contar desde zero") of which... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In jail, a man loves his innocence with the same absurd force that he fears his crimes. What happens when the innocent is thrown in with the guilty, or the guilty with the innocent? Four unlikely cellmates suddenly find... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In achaotic city, the latest in a line of viruses advances as a man recounts the fated steps that led him to be confined in a room with his lover while catastrophe looms. As he takes inventory of the city's ills, a strange stone... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer's throat. Nefer measures the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Written in alternating voices, Jorge Guzman's JOB BOJ is a captivating novel that explores the progression from melancholy to happiness, or vice versa. The delicate interplay between a light-hearted narrator and a brooding,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) While on vacation in the Caribbean, timid ten-year-old Pedro, who grows and shrinks depending on his emotions, gets lost and befriends Johnny, a gruff islander descended from pirates, who helps change Pedro's life.Illustrated by... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Juanita la Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years... mostrar más