Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Seventeen stories gallop, frolic, and slither across the pages of this collection of stories by Mexican author Brianda Domecq. A pet canary is caught between her nesting instinct and her desire for solitude. A jaguar serves as... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When I Was Mortal collects a dozen stories by Javier Marias, "justly considered the most talented Spanish author alive" (Il Messaggero). Victims of mistaken identity, amateur sleuths, professional liars, eavesdroppers, assassins... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Where the Air is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, opens with a metaphorical description of Mexico City and the challenges facing its inhabitants and quickly becomes an unsparing portrayal of the upper class. Departing from... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In seaside Bosque de Mar, Argentina, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortun--the mysterious death of one of their party, and an investigation headed by the physician, writer and insufferable busybody, Dr.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of short stories, including "While the women are sleeping," in which a man lying on the beach spectulates on the lives of another pair of beach goers, and "The Resignation Letter of Señor de Santiesteban,"... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Slippery figures in anomalous situations – ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals– haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) One by one, men's bodies are washing up on the shore of the river that passes through town, where they are claimed by the local women as their missing husbands and fathers, even though the faces of the dead men are... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma. Paloma is dead. But before... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: () Ana María Shua's microfictions reveal oneiric universes, multiform realties, secret worlds with the unlikely coherence of the absurd, the amorphous logic of the imagination. They are characterized by the most unique form of concise... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel.The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano―an exiled Chilean university professor and widower―... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The number-one international bestseller, "Women With Big Eyes" is Mexican novelist Angeles Mastretta's most wedely read work, at last translated into English. Meet the outrageous Aunt Leonor, who deines herself the forbidden... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) A number-one international bestseller, Women with Big Eyes is Mexican novelist Ángeles Mastretta's most widely read work, now available for the first time in an English translation. Each of the stories in this volume reveals a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) The story of a son trying to make his father proud-- by becoming an international criminal. Set in contemporary Barcelona and made up of multiple storylines, including a fictional manuscript by Stephen King.
Más información: Responsibility: Javier Calvo ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States. Abelardo, who... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Yawar Fiesta describes the social relations between Indians, mestizos, and whites in the Peruvian highland town of Puquio in the early twentieth century. Each group's reaction to the national government's attempt to suppress... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Yocandra, the first-person narrator, was born (like Valdés herself) in Havana in 1959. Now a dispirited, outspoken woman living in Cuba, narrator writes of a reality of 'nothing' that contrasts poignantly with that of a gusana... mostrar más