Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The novel The Limping Devil (El diablo cojuelo) was first published in Spain in 1641. The author of nearly two hundred dramas, Luis Vélez de Guevara was highly admired by his contemporaries, including Miguel de Cervantes and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In The Linden Tree, the narrator, who could be Aira himself (born the same year, in the same place, a writer who is now also living in Buenos Aires) writes down his childhood memories.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cesar is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle,... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Katherine Silver.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Little Buddhist Monk is a story of Asian invention gone wild, as a diminutive Korean Buddhist monk acts as a tour guide to an increasingly distraught French couple on a working vacation in the Far East. Proof brings us... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) At the center of The Lizard's Tale is Antonio Muñoz-Roa, a prominent painter whose circumstances bear a striking resemblance to Donoso's own when he wrote the novel. Hiding in his Barcelona apartment, obsessed with... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: José Donoso ; edited by Julio Ortega ; translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the forty-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into his... mostrar más
Editorial: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 481 págs.
ISBN: 9781984898630
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The third novel in the internationally bestselling White City Trilogy sees Kraken on the hunt for a murderer whose macabre crimes are lifted straight from history. Kraken is charged with investigating the death of a businessman... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In approximately seventy-two hours, a little known Middle Eastern terrorist group plans to bring about the end of the world, and a central aspect of their plan is the kidnapping of Martin Fabor, an undercover American scientist.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization the upper reaches of a great South American river.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Following the chance discovery of certain documents, a historian sets out to solve the mystery of a murder committed in the building where he lived as a ten-year-old in Mexico City's Colonia Roma in autumn 1942. Mexico had just... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) La Loca de Gandoca caused a national outcry in Costa Rica when it was published in 1992. It blew the whistle on a secret plot by government officials and private investors to develop the Gandoca-Manzanilla Wildlife Refuge, which... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Two "renderings of a Mexican society fast unraveling under the mounting influence of European culture.Edited and with an introduction by Margo Glantz. Illustrations by José María Villasana.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After meeting during a train ride from Milan to Venice, a young opera singer and a married woman begin a passionate love affair.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A story of love and memory. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Mangy Parrot has become a Mexican classic beloved by generations of Latin American readers. Now, in vibrant American idiom, translator David Frye captures the exuberance of Lizardi's tale-telling as the author follows his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The author follows his narrator and alter ego, Periquillo Sarniento, through a series of misadventures that exposes the ignorance and corruption plaguing Mexican society on the eve of the wars for independence. Raw descriptions... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The action of the wondrous final volume in Spanish author Palma's speculative thriller trilogy (which began with "The Map of Time" unfolds in several Victorian eras in parallel universes, beginning with esteemed... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue.