Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tattoo it, or when we mute it by... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) This story of love and revolution takes place during the Argentine struggle for independence (1810-1820) and focuses on the character of the national hero, Manuel Belgrano. Belgrano's story is told through the voices of... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Ana Gloria Moya ; translated by W. Nick Hill.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Baudoin's beguiling portrayals of day-to-day lives belie the unsettling feeling of things unseen and unsaid, and on the verge of falling apart. In the title story, a pregnant woman on an eco-adventure to escape a recent break-up... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Nicolás asks his very sleepy father to tell story after story and hears of a man who sleeps in his umbrella, another in the sea, and a third in a monkey's cage.Illustrations by Diego Bianki.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving historical novel is inspired by the written recollections and the memories that haunted the author's father, Nicias Aridjis,-a captain in the Greek army, who returned from the fields of battle to Smyrna,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Three generations, a surprise confession and many secrets. Several Asturian women tell their histories in eighteen gripping stories, retold by Paquita Suarez Coalla. The ferocious Franco dictatorship, the Spanish Civil War,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the waning days of the Spanish Civil War, an unknown militiaman discovered a Nationalist prisoner who had fled a firing squad and taken refuge in the forest. But instead of killing him, the soldier simply turned and walked... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners face a firing squad. Among them is Rafael Sánchez Mazas-writer, fascist, and founder of the Spanish Falange. As the machine guns begin to fire... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, as the remnants of the Republican army retreat north into exile, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are taken out to be shot. Among them is Rafael Sanchez Mazas - writer, fascist... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Solitaire of Love explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Tracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of Solitaire of Love becomes addicted... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Cristina Peri Rossi ; translated from the Spanish by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Anita stands in line to receive a legacy of some 200... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Anita stands in line to receive a legacy of some 200... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A lyrical novel following an idealistic student who explores the power of literature in Franco's Spain. It's the summer of 1963 and León Egea, a cocky nineteen-year-old student and aspiring author, has just finished his first... mostrar más
Editorial: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2025
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 350 págs.
ISBN: 9780063356153
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This novel reimagines the legendary relationship between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon within a contemporary setting shaped by displacement and migration. The narrative follows Bos Mutas, a writer traveling from South... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence--sometimes directly, sometimes only in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man have worked side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basket weavers. But when the old man falls sick and dies, Boga abandons himself... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific... mostrar más