Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The narrator of Montano's Malady is a writer who is so obsessed with literature that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Terran scholar Rachel Monteverde journeys to Aanuk, a paradisiacal planet famous for both its beaches and the generosity and joy of life of its nomadic inhabitants. The Aanukiens are not the only people on the planet, however:... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A young Roman aristocrat, spoiled and alcoholic, must face the worst catastrophe Pompeii has ever seen: the eruption of Vesuvius.Marcus has been educated to rise to the highest levels of the Senate. Still, his thirst for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A young Roman aristocrat, spoiled and alcoholic, must face the worst catastrophe Pompeii has ever seen: the eruption of Vesuvius.Marcus has been educated to rise to the highest levels of the Senate. Still, his thirst for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Mother Nature is certainly Emilia Pardo Bazan's greatest contribution to the Realistic/ Naturalistic Spanish novel of her time, and represents her literary powers at the very height of her career as a writer. It has been said... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In Mourning, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous narrator travels to Poland, Italy, the U.S., and the Guatemalan countryside in search of secrets he can barely name. He follows memory's strands back to his maternal roots in Jewish Poland... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Using the death of the father as a point of departure, the novel is divided into ten chapters, a structure that is particularly effective because the chapters correspond to the ten days that begin on the Jewish New Year and end... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The crunch of a bird's wing. Abandoned by the roadside, newlywed brides scream with rage as they are caught in the headlights of a passing car. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. Unearthly and unexpected, these... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A first English-language collection of stories by the Man Booker International Prize-finalist author of Fever Dream incorporates themes of high suspense, psychological tension, unearthly restlessness and distortions in reality.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The crunch of a bird's wing. A cloud of butterflies, so beautiful it smothers. A crimson flash of blood across an artist's canvas. Spine-tingling and unexpected, unearthly and strange, the stories of Mouthful of Birds are... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An allegorical novel following the widowed keeper of a mysterious garden. When art student Izu's teacher asks her to visit the famous collection of Mr. Murakami, she publishes a firm rebuttal to his curation. Instead of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Named one of the best books of the summer by the Wall Street Journal, Elle, the Huffington Post and Purewow "Latin America's new literary star."--The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Nine short stories that reveal the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The stories explore the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "Why me?" asks Pepe Carvalho. "Because you're an ex-communist. Because you know who we are, what we're like, where we come from, and where we're going." At a meeting of the central committee of Spain's Communist Party, in a room... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as "a total knockout." Now, in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) My Emerald Green Dress is the riveting account of a woman's thorny yet oddly rewarding life. You will become a part of her emotional journey from the abuse she suffers as an adolescent through her maturation as a self-assured... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he finds himself drawn into an obsessive search for a local man gone missing. As the truth--not only about his father but an entire generation--comes to light, the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young writer returns to his native Argentina to uncover a mystery surrounding his dying father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man, which he ties to the country's dark political past and his family's underground... mostrar más