Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) María moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow always taking care of someone else. Two... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The grandson of Laura Díaz provides the story of his grandmother, a lover of great men and "a politically committed artist on whom none of the poignant paradoxes of Mexican life have been lost.
Más información: Responsibility: Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the nearly deserted and ruined town of Ainielle, high in the Spanish Pyrenees, the village's sole remaining inhabitant, an elderly man on his deathbed, reminiscences about his life and summons the ghosts of his friends and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This study examines the work of Manuel Vazquez Montalban, a Spanish creative writer and socio-political commentator, focusing on his Carvalho series of detective novels, which span some 25 years. Bayo Bellenguer (Spanish, Dublin... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The emerging societies of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century were a riotous assembly of pirates, aristocrats, revolutionaries, and rogues -- outcasts and fortune seekers all. In They're Cows, We're Pigs, acclaimed Mexican... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories--spiraling from real events--that bleed together reportage and the author's rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Tells the stories of a gypsy romance, a dialogue between two dogs, and a day in the underworld of eighteenth-century Seville, written in the baroque language of Cervantes' era.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after 20 years of absence to mourn his two friends--two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised 'the three musketeers'.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Centering around the recollections of a man separated both from his country and his youth, Cabrera Infante creates a vision of life and the many colorful characters found in steamy Havana's pre-Castro cabaret society.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Tierra del Fuego is a suspenseful seafaring tale in the tradition of Horatio Hornblower, enriched by a chilling psychological and cultural tale that probes deeply into human nature - one reminiscent of Heart of Darkness or... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of nine short stories set in the bleak and unforgiving landscape of Chile's southern islands explores the harsh reality of the baseness of human nature.