Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru. "Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor café, absorbed in conversation with a talented video... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador.... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In 1916 the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the itish government for by treason. Casement had dedicated HIS extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed Peoples around the world - especially the native... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the near future, at a meeting of the United States Security Council, Mexico's idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington's refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ignacio Matus is a public school history teacher in Monterrey, Mexico, who gets fired because of his patriotic rantings about Mexico's repeated humiliations by the United States. Not only did Mexico's northern neighbor steal a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This collection brings together Perla Suez's first three novels written for adults. Translated from the Spanish by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan, the novels take place in Entre Rios, the Argentine province where thousands of Jewish... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The central character of The Eye of Cybele is Alcibiades, a stutteringly precocious Athenian general whose physical beauty, unparalleled Olympic achievements, and reckless courage on the battlefield earn the fanatical... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Eye of the Cybele, Akashic's second release by celebrated Uruguayan mystery novelist Daniel Chavarrma, is equal parts historical epic, whodunnit-style thriller, highbrow erotica and philosophical discourse. Set in late sixth-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown. A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This book reflects the crude reality of rural Spain in Franco's time. It is full of human power and rich in social insight. Cela writes with great detail, but still maintains simplicity.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Everyone is resting but Paul. Paul mows, rakes, sows, and draws water. Soon Paul has beautiful plants and flowers growing all around him. But one day, the water dries up. The sun beats down. Paul despairs. But thanks to his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of twenty stories by Bolivian authors.Contents: The day of atonement / Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz -- Buttons / Claudia Adriázola -- Dochera / Edmundo Paz-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called "the Goat," still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republicand finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.