Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This translation makes available to the English-reading public another treatment of that most famous of Spanish literary creations: the Don Juan figure. This is a Don Juan in decline who will come to grips with his emptiness... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Jacinto Octavio Picón ; translated from the Spanish by Robert M. Fedorchek ; introduction by Noël M. Valis.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Early one morning in a deserted field, Ramó n Castaños is confronted with the dead body of Adela, a lovely young girl, whom he had only admired from afar. Within an hour, rumor of the death of Ramón Castaños's girlfriend has... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Júbilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy,... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Laura Esquivel ; translated by Stephen Lytle.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart. She returns to those themes in Swift as Desire, the story of a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A novel based on the life of the author's father follows the fortunes of don Jubilo, a telegraph operator, as his life parallels the birth, rise, and eventual fall of the telegraph.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A mediocre man struggles in the land of the successful. A celebrity who falls in disgrace finally finds "escape" from his torments. The obsessive search of a man for his lost shadow. A couple of brothers hunt for an ancient... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the manner of fabled storytellers, Ponte creates a vivid picture of contemporary Cuba -- its real and imagined place in the world -- through stories told by a foreign exchange physics student, urban planners who discover an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The unimaginable has already begun.Tales from the Tortilla Curtain: There are projects under way even today that may result in a great wall between the United States and Mexico. In this day and age of fear and suspicion, we can... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Javier Amaya depicts the experience of the human being who struggles with social and economic differences and the ultimate consequences of these differences: war. Fierce, incomprehensible, and useless wars that are the result of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Contents: Mask of the monster / Matthew Baugh -- Cadavres exquis / Bill Cunningham -- When Lemmy met Jules / Terrance Dicks -- The vanishing devil / Win Scott Eckert... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona, when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of identifying it is through a tattoo... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) With war looming dangerously close, Ilse's school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia'... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists". The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This work contains new English translations of three short novels and seven short stories that critics have singled out as representative of Leopoldo Alas's short prose fiction. "The Two Boxes" evokes the frustration of an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans -- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A novel which tells the story of those who lost the battle that led to the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, i.e., the Aztecs.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Chronological time is abolished and space concentrated into one area in a multi-dimensional pageant of Spanish history and culture that touches upon all facets of human experience.Introduction by Jorge Volpi Escalante; afterword... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition todemocracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of... mostrar más