Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Drawn to sixteen-year-old Lucia during a visit to Madrid's Prado museum, art historian Manuel draws parallels between Lucia and Juana the Mad, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose story Lucia and Manuel find... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Rosalie Knecht.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Eduardo Sacheri ; translated by John Cullen.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1497 Milan, a Papal Inquisitor seeks to confirm, or deny, the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1497 a Dominican inquisitor is sent to Milan to supervise the final phase of the painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Never a conformist, da Vinci creates a masterpiece that raises questions that have yet to be... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A motley group of men who meet to play dominoes in a 1922 Mexico City hotel bar witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Barcelona, 1945: just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Three old members of Chile's Socialist Liberation Army have been summoned by the anarchist known as The Shadow to carry out one last revolutionary mission. The Shadow disappears before he can meet with them, though, and now one... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Laura Rivera can't believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in her own living room! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger or who might have masterminded the murder, but Laura - an upper-... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.