Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book-at once fiction, history, and memoir-that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From one of Spain's most celebrated writers, an extraordinary, inspired book -- at once fiction, history, and memoir -- that draws on the Sephardic diaspora, the Holocaust, and Stalin's purges to tell a twentieth-century story.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) On September 11, 2001 the world watched from the outside as thousands of people died. This novel portrays what it might have been like for those on the inside. The fear, the anguish, the heartache, and the human side of this... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Seven Against Georgia is a group of "testimonials" in which seven flamboyant Spanish gay men, adopting such over-the-top noms de guerre as Herr Betty Honey and Pamela Poodle, respond to sodomy laws by sending their stories of sex... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) SEVEN VIEWS OF THE SAME LANDSCAPE is a beautiful collection of coming-of-age tales that unfold in post-Civil War Barcelona. Told as remembered episodes largely from a child's perspective, the young Sara is entranced by the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) “Why hurry to give a welcome to grief?” asks Carolina. In the 1880’s a Mexican family splits in two; Carolina remains in rural Mexico, while her two brothers head north to what will become urban Texas. Still connected but ever... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Ricardo Elizondo ; English translation by Geoff Hargreaves.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The monotonous life of a male bookseller is shaken by a consummate female book thief named Severina. As though in an obsessive dream with blurred lines between the rational and irrational, the bookseller delves deeper and deeper... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Three men, including a railway signalman, a World War I hero and Nazi general, and a master chess player, find key events in their lives intertwining as the events of the First and Second World Wars thrust them together at the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Counter A stunning debut by one of Mexico's most dazzling younger writers. In 1916, Victor Kretzchmar and Thadeus Dreyer face each other over a chessboard on a train heading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's disastrous Eastern... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) During World War II, General Thadeus Dreyer is put in charge of the Amphitryon Project, training doubles to stand in for leading Nazis at dangerous public events. What bearing does this have on the arrest of Adolf Eichmann in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A man's search for a missing girl leads him across borders and through a landscape of urban violence in this timely, propulsive, and brilliantly imagined thriller. Ethan is living a solid, rational life as a bail bondsman in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In this bildungsroman, Donato Ndongo masterfully exposes the cultural fissures of his native land. "Spanish Guinea" is a heated, sensual landscape with exotic animals and trees, ancient rituals, ghosts, saints, and sinners. We... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set during the last years of Spanish rule in Equatorial Guinea, Shadows of your Black memory presents the voice of a young African man reflecting on his childhood. Through the idealistic eyes of the nameless protagonist, Donato... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown attracts the attention of a corrupt policeman who would use anyone including innocent kids to break a drug ring he believes... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) She decided to be a hippy at 50 ISC Novel Award 1999 When you feel the world is tight, erases yours dreams, attempts to tie your emotions or silences your voice as you differ, wear your colored beads, your bellbottoms, a ribbon... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin introduces the revolutionary work of a mysterious Japanese writer whose very existence has been all but erased from world literature. A writer who inspired Juan Rulfo and José María Arguedas,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Larry returns to Colombia twelve years after the disappearance of his father, an old associate of Pablo Escobar. His remains have finally been unearthed in a mass grave, and Larry is returning to give them a proper burial ... but... mostrar más