Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Tells the story of the fictional Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement of a Nobel Prize winning career. The novel tells the story... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A poignant collage of stories of women young and old, this novel from an Alfaguara Prize-winning author explores passion, bad decisions, and the scars left by relationships over time. Margarita suspects that her husband is having... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Identical twin spinsters, Gloria and Constitución Gamal, enjoy their successful tailoring business in rural Mexico and take particular thrills in confusing people. When a new suitor arrives, one sister decides she wants all the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Grieving the loss of her husband and child, Alicia is haunted by surreal nighmares that start to appear in her waking world, a situation that causes her to question her sanity and the sincerity of her support network.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) AAfter a tragic car accident shatters her body and mind, Cassandra struggles to piece together her life as a respected psychiatrist and devoted mother. But the accident has changed her. Her eyes have been opened to horrors she... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Mr. Optimus Oloop is a Finnish statistician living in Buenos Aires. His life runs according to a methodical and rigid schedule, with everything - from his meals down to his visits to the city brothels - timed to the minute.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Spain, 1639. When Len de Montemayor's family is killed, she thinks her life is over ... until an aristocratic family rescues her. Len finds a soul mate in their son, Piers, and as they grow up together, their friendship becomes a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The ten writers in this volume rose to prominence in the last decade of the twentieth century. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba underwent a drastic economic contraction that brought about an explosion of feminine... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Operation Pedro Pan opened the door to the United States for more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied Cuban children. How did this come to be called Operation Pedro Pan? It was important from the very beginning that we in Miami... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) 'Was it an intuition that made me select -- I think at the beginning of my adolescence – a form of approach to life linked to English literature through Shakespeare? And can one talk in this case of literature? I think not, I... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The crisp tension in this daring collection of short stories—with both the original Spanish and flawless English renditions—reveals a darker side of Cuban reality. One woman wakes up to find an unknown man fast asleep by her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An Argentinian woman obsessed with art conflates personal events from her life in Buenos Aires with fascinating episodes from art history, refracting her personality through the canvases she studies.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The narrator of Optic Nerve is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) It seemed to me the state of my soul was a blurry memory of something that had occurred in a place in northern Spain called Ordesa... A man at a crossroads in midlife considers the place where he's from, where his parents have... mostrar más