Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man-that the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Using only dialogue as its narrative technique, Luis Zapata recounts the story of his protagonist Santiago, a middle-aged businessman hopelessly in love with Arturo, a 19-year-old teenager, who is the son of Sarita, his best... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Swordsman-for-hire Alatriste and his teenage protégé rejoin Alatriste's elite Cartagena regiment during the siege of Breda, an effort that is complicated by the growing power of Luis de Alquézar/
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Recounts the experiences of Baltazar, a polar bear of wisdom and humor, after he is captured by hunters and confined in an urban zoo, in a satiric novel orginally written shortly after the 1973 Chilean coup.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down-- that she... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) It is 2001, and inflation is spiraling out of control in Argentina as Bruno Cadogan, an American graduate student specializing in Borges, arrives in Buenos Aires. Cadogan is on the trail of Julio Martel, an elusive tango singer... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) International bestselling author Mario Escobar captures the strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of kindness in this moving novel based on the true story of a brave Polish teacher who cared for hundreds of orphans... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Murder, love, betrayal, and some of the world’s most beautiful objects d’art come together in Juan Manuel de Prada's tempestuous, prize-winning novel set in Europe’s quintessentially enigmatic city: Venice. Alejandro... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Arriving in wintry Venice to study Giorgione's painting, "The Tempest," Spanish art historian Alejandro Ballesteros witnesses a murder and is propelled into a dangerous web that brings together the city's academic world and a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) A passionate affair suddenly turns sinister, and the middle-aged couple realize they share a lust for killing as well as each other. Witty and unexpectedly amusing, this thrilling novel is a captivating look at desire in its... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Mempo Giardinelli ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In seventeenth-century France, young d'Artagnan joins the three musketeers and tries to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Time In Between follows the story of a seamstress who becomes the most sought-after couturiere during the Spanish Civil War and World War II
Más información: Responsibility: María Dueñas ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) "The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez delves into the political power and influence of the Brull family in the District of Alcira. The novel explores the rise of don Ramón Brull and his wife, doña Bernarda, as... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Many years after a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways from a storm and receives a gold-and-diamond emblem from a grateful survivor, the captain's son learns of the object's link to a World War II tale about a man's... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gómez-Jurado ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) "The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history" -- 2014. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday: a failing body, a slower mind, and the ideals and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Relates the wanderings of the fictional poet Arnold Faría Utrillo during the first half of the twentieth century. From the San Francisco earthquake to Paris between the wars, from his mother's youth in the Mexican port of... mostrar más