Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Pedro Juan's adventures with various women feature a kind of modulated macho: he's not particularly interested in any of them other than physically, especially wife Julia, but he's very good at articulating his boredom and their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An aging writer, disillusioned with the state of literary culture, attempts to disappear in the most cosmically dramatic manner: traveling to the Hadron Collider, merging with the God particle, and transforming into an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Detective Amaia Salazar leads an investigation of the murder of two young women which takes her back to her village in the middle of Basque country where secrets, myths and superstitions await.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztan. Less than 24 hours after this discovery, a link is made to the murder of another girl the month before. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) At a New Year's Eve party, a dead woman turns up alive again, after passing through a mysterious post-mortem way station located on another planet, and much to the disbelief of her old flame, who interprets the night's events... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An enchanting multigenerational epic of three families - from Africa, Spain, and China - and their bond to one another and the island they call home. Cecilia is alone in a city that haunts her. Life in Miami evokes memories of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Félix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlán and charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is not an option. After a decade... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the world goes to war,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Masterful storyteller and Cervantes Prize winner reflects on the power of literature and travel to change our lives. Introduction by Álvaro Enrigue.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After its liberation from harsh French rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of King Henri Christophe's black regime, which was built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A vacation in Paris! It was supposed to be a glorious time to immerse herself in culture, go to concerts, visit museums and forget what she had given up. Instead, Malena finds herself in a seedy striptease joint, forced to... mostrar más