Resumen/Reseñas: () My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) As one of Spain's most celebrated and influential poets, Luis Alberto de Cuenca has won a wide international following. His poems have been translated into several languages, among them French, German and Italian, but thus far... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his - the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An international bestseller about the blackest period of Argentinean history. Luz, a twenty-year-old Argentinean, is on vacation in Madrid with her husband and newborn son. But Luz has a secret mission-to find her real father.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Every morning, Ms. Marta goes out to check that the world is how it should be: her friends sitting on a terrace playing cards, the beach where it always is, children playing in the playground.Illustrated by Ana Penyas.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods, the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic, embroiders linens for the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in "My Two Worlds" is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Sergio Chejfec ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret B. Carson ; introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com)Nada has been acclaimed as one of the best accounts of life in post-civil war Spain. It is a work that reflects the psychological and sociological effects of war on a society, particularly on its youth. It also... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In Barcelona, in the wake of the Spanish Civil War, Andrea, a young university student, moves into a strange, gothic house inhabited by a volatile array of aunts and uncles in order to attend college.Introduction by Mario Vargas... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Loosely based on the author's own life, Nada is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Andrea, an impoverished 18-year-old girl, travels to Barcelona to study literature at the university. The city imposes its post-Civil War atmosphere on her impressionable mind. As the story develops, the tension between her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Irene's husband has left her for a younger woman and her family business is on the verge of collapse, but the last thing she wants is to be the subject of gossip or pity. So she starts spending time with Genoveva, a divorcée who... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Edgar 'Lefty' Mendieta can't believe his luck. An old flame has returned to Mexico with a son he knew nothing about - it seems that a happy family life is finally beckoning for our careworn hero. The only snag is that Jason... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Alone but for her memories, Nancy has returned to Chile to wait for her cancer to take her away. Before her illness, before her husband's ridiculous death, before she fled home hidden in the back of a truck, she spent her youth... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Terrifying creatures, unseen to all around him, have tormented Elisse since he was a little boy. These “nightmares” and the cruel life as a young Westerner in a refugee camp have left him isolated and alone. The only clue to his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Having achieved professional success in Barcelona at the expense of family life, best friends Montse and Roser are dissatisfied and sexually frustrated. Over Catalan champagne and cognac, the two friends hatch a casual plan to... mostrar más