Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their destination.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) One day two women gather to tell stories. As the stories take life, the two women become their characters. A day and night of telling builds into a crescendo of unimaginable truth where the boundaries between story, fable, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he's forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Jose Maria, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espanola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Jose Maria, a young Spaniard studying at the Real Academia Espanola in Rome during the Spanish Civil War, and his beloved Montse become involved with Junio, a pro-Nazi Italian prince, in a search for the map God used to create... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When Jose Maria, an architect, is forced to wait out the Spanish Civil War in 1937 at the Spanish Academy in Rome, he learns of an underground Nazi plot to acquire a legendary map that is said to be penned by God depicting the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Pablo, a failed Argentine novelist-turned-screenwriter, has been kidnapped by the greatest Latin American film director of all time and is kept in a basement where he works, day after day, on what he is told must at all costs be... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Granted amnesty along with other non-violent Chilean prisoners, Ángel Santiago plots revenge against those who abused him in jail, teaming up with bank robber Nicolás Vergara Grey during a heist that is complicated by the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Antonio Skármeta : translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The narrator remembers a young factory worker, named Delia. Delia is beautiful, but also very poor, and the narrator mentions her "proletarian nature" compared to the narrator's well-educated, middle-class background. He seems... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Colombian forest prostitute Sayonara violates the boundaries of her profession by pursuing a relationship with an unavailable man, a choice that jeopardizes her clients, the oil company workers, as well as her own happiness.
Más información: Responsibility: Laura Restrepo ; translated by Stephen A. Lytle.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) BERLIN, 1939. The dreams that Amanda Sternberg and her husband, Julius, had for their daughters are shattered when the Nazis descend on Berlin, burning down their beloved family bookshop and sending Julius to a concentration camp... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An unforgettable family saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II history and the lengths a mother will go to protect her children.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) It is known that the strangers will sail from some part of the Ancient Lands and will cross the Yentru Sea. All our predictions and sacred books clearly say the same thing. The rest is all shadows. Shadows that prevent us from... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other... mostrar más