Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a crime novel that upends all the genre's conventions, a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad and quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past: a murdered brother, a dealer of beautiful thoughts,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale of vengeance and vigilante justice at the hands of an unlikely heroine, fourteen year-old girl Lum Hué, daughter of a white man and a Mapuche mother and sole survivor of the massacre of her village in 1879 by white troops... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) At the end of the nineteenth century, thousands of Jamaicans journeyed to Ecuador to fulfill their dreams for their future. But, to secure this dream, they had to accomplish their goal, which was to build President Eloy Alfaro's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "Ever since I could chase a bone, I've longed to talk ..." The first talking-dog story in Western literature--from the writer generally acknowledged, alongside William Shakespeare, as the founding father of modern literature, no... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, "The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life" is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia's acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975--running a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Andrés Fava is a character from Cortázar's Final Exam, and his diary originally formed part of that novel, written in 1950 but not published, for political reasons, until after the author's death. At some stage Cortázar decided... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events -- the very public death of Ybarra's grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events -- the very public death of Ybarra's grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru. "Mario Vargas Llosa's new novel, The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Divorce tells about a recently divorced man on vacation in Buenos Aires. One afternoon he encounters a series of the most magical coincidences. While sitting at an outdoor café, absorbed in conversation with a talented video... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The legendary modernist poet William Carlos Williams described this seventeenth-century book as "far more 'modern' than ever Hemingway or even Gertie ever thought of being" and "hot as hell besides." Williams translated this... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) An enigmatic and audacious novel with ironic and sarcastic language in which gender power struggles, relations between couples, the seduction of erotic love, and repressed desire are highlighted. Andrés is a forty-year-old... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Linda Berrón ; translation by Mayela Vallejos Ramírez and Edward Waters Hood.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. Drinking way too much and breaking up with his wife, an exiled journalist in Mexico City dreams of returning home to El Salvador.... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world--especially the native... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In 1916 the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the itish government for by treason. Casement had dedicated HIS extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed Peoples around the world - especially the native... mostrar más