Editorial: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Ciudad: New York
Año de publicación: 2013
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 270 págs.
ISBN: 9781594487484
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young would-be writer from Catalonia meets Vietnam veteran Rodney Falk at a Midwestern university in 1987, but it is only years later, when he is a successful novelist, that he begins to understand what Rodney reveals about... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Mexico, 1970s. Jan and Remo find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world- or sacrifice themselves to it. The city tugs... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Collection of twenty-three short stories of Argentinean peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyrants, and seductresses and fortune tellers.
Más información: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Editorial: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2018
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 284 págs.
ISBN: 9780062660718
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the wake of the inferno unleashed over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, two stories unfold: that of Jim, an American soldier when the bomb dropped, and H, a mere schoolgirl at the time. Both victims of the bomb, the two cross... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Back cover) Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez Sanchez is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the 'Notorious Infamous' like Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton,... mostrar más
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) Inspector Hector Salgado is a transplanted Argentine living in Barcelona. While working on a human trafficking case, Salgado's violent temper got the best of him and he beat a suspect within an inch of his life. Ordered on... 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