Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Twenty-eight storytellers - one for each letter of the Arabic alphabet - meet in a garden to tell the story of a poet, Eusebio, who was arrested in the early days of the Spanish civil war. The storytellers question the nature of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) This collection of fourteen stories and one minidrama features children protagonists, talking birds, and extraordinary occurrences. Like the tales of Charles Perrault and the brothers Grimm, they speak to fantasies and fears... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Argentinian writer Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851-1889) fashioned his seminal gauchesque novel from the prison records of the real Juan Moreira, a noble outlaw whose life and name became legendary in the Río de la Plata during the late... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Their name was only spoken in hushed tones. They were cloaked in anonymity, a legend thought to belong to the distant past. In the early twentieth century, Barcelona basks as the center of the high-spirited Modernist movement... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) As noted Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudí hides an extraordinary relic in his complex masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, he is pursued by the leader of a malevolent secret society that remains a threat a century later.
Más información: Responsibility: Esteban Martín and Andreu Carranza ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Gabriel García Márquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simón Bolívar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolívar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolivar, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) General Simon Bolivar, 'the Liberator' of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Before everything changed, young Hannah Rosenthal lived a charmed life. But now, in 1939, the streets of Berlin are draped with red, white, and black flags; her family's fine possessions are hauled away; and they are no longer... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The legendary title novella from one of Mexicos most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This lost masterwork, collected with his previously untranslated... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Rulfo ; translated from the Spanish, with an introduction and additional materials, by Douglas J. Weatherford.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Golden Horse by Juan David Morgan is a sweeping saga, painting a vivid, personal portrayal of the events that transpired as a result of the rivalry between New York shipping magnates, William Aspinwall and Cornelius... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One snowy night in New York City, a successful but solitary goldsmith reflects on his life, and his unreliable memories intertwine and collide.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) A young man, Juan Luis Luna, is abducted in Guatemala City and held at the bottom of a rusty, empty underground fuel tank in an abandoned gas station. The kidnappers demand a ransom; his rich father does not reply. The... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) After a company retreat in a remote country house, senior employees of Alemany Cosmetics return with a dark secret. They've each received an anonymous, menacing email of only two words: 'never forget.' What's worse, the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After a company retreat in a remote country house, senior employees of Alemany Cosmetics return with a dark secret. They've each received an anonymous, menacing email of only two words: 'never forget.' What's worse, the message... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Green Bird and Other Tales / El pajaro verde y otros cuentos brings together, in English translation and in the original castellano, nine works that identify Juan Valera as an authentic fairy-tale/fantasy writer, a fictional... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences. This brothel, called the Green House... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Mario Vargas Llosa's novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a chain reaction with extraordinary consequences. This brothel, called the Green House... mostrar más