Resumen/Reseñas: (Provided by publisher) The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A best seller and critical success all over the world, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family -- their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.With an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents a novel set in an unnamed Latin American country and describes the struggles, passions, and secrets of the Trueba family that spans three generations.
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Julián Ríos's latest comic extravaganza is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture as delivered by Groucho Marx on the subject of that great (and often imposing) cornerstone of world literature: James... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Julián Ríos ; translated by Nick Caistor.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A cycle of poems in free verse that develops a cosmic vision of hunting and the hunter. The hunter becomes the hunted, the animal, the poet, finally God, the Great Hunter of souls. Preface by translator, Bilingual text, Notes... mostrar más
Editorial: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2017
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 136 págs.
ISBN: 9781558614352
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Don Faustino Lopez de Mendoza, scion of an illustrious but impoverished family of the highest nobility, believes himself destined for great accomplishments in the literary world, sees himself as a poet of the first rank, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Novel about Enric Marco, a Spanish man who claimed to have been a prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps, until historian Benito Bermejo found out that his story was not true.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Breakfasting daily at a Madrid café where she observes fellow patrons, María Dolz offers condolences to a widow whose husband has been shockingly murdered, an act that leads to a new relationship and disturbing insights into the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translation by Margaret Jull Costa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Isabel Allende’s first novel to be set in the United States and to portray American characters, The Infinite Plan is a vivid tale of one man’s search for love, and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of Gregory Reeves's journey from childhood to middle age and long-sought peace and happiness. Gregory's journey is marked by the contending philosophies of his mother's Bahai faith; his father's personally revealed,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who escaped to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) In Carlos Rojas's imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Carlos Rojas ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalry romances that he determines to turn knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translated by John Rutherford ; with an introduction by Roberto González Echevarría.