Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men into her "services". Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity, the luscious... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Daniel Chavarría ; translation by Carlos Lopez.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly after the end of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This anthology is the first of its kind on Puerto Rican literature. The comprehensive introduction traces the history of the representation of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the short story, paying special attention to circumstances... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A coming of age story that holds a mirror up to the modern history of Guatemala - a funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy which provides a better description of life in that country than any history book... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Le Monde Claudio's apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jose Asuncion Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siecle novels and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Afternoon of the Dinosaur, by Cristina Peri Rossi, one of the most important Spanish writers of our time, was first published in 1976. Due to censorship in Spain under Franco, it was initially distributed only in Latin America... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Born in sixteenth-century Argentina, Francisco Maldonado da Silva is nine years old when he sees his father, Don Diego, arrested one harrowing afternoon because of his beliefs. Raised in a family practicing its Jewish faith in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a series of tales fashioned as an old fisherman's reflections, Peruvian-American author and sociologist Muñoz ("The Peruvian Notebooks") offers an elegiac lament for a disappearing way of life along Peru's Pacific coast.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Where can you find truth in a world that is so thoroughly ruled by lies? That is the question tackled by the investigation of a French journalist who endeavours to shed light on the enigma of an unexplained death.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) An irreverent picaresque, All Night Movie follows the adventures of a young woman determined to conquer the world. A rogues' gallery of labor union leaders, cultists, lesbians, murderers, ne'er-do-wells, prostitutes, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set at Oxford University, the young tutor Clare Bayes attracted the eyes of a visiting Spanish lecturer, and the two begin an affair, unbeknownst to Clare's husband, but they carelessly leave behind evidence of the adultery.With... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) At High Table in an Oxford college, the pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not least to her fetching decollettage. No one's eyes were sharper, however, than those of the visiting Spanish lecturer, invited as a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Nineteen-year-old Leah Jones is struggling to cope after she and her twenty-nine-year-old brother Oliver lose their parents in a horrific car accident. Leah was in the car and is plagued by nightmares, intense grief and numbness-... mostrar más