Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Professor Juan Manuel Barrientos prefers footsteps to footnotes. Fighting a hangover, he manages to keep his appointment to lead a group of students on a walking lecture among the historic buildings of downtown Mexico City. When... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Gonzalo Celorio ; translated by Dick Gerdes ; foreword by Ruben Gallo.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This murder mystery follows a tragic overnight train journey in 1952 from Bolivia to Chile, presenting a moving environment at once carnivalesque and sinister. The novel explores the social tensions characteristic of Bolivian... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, wakes to read that her closest friend, Violeta, has suffered a brutal tragedy. Assisted by the "others", a chorus of female ancestral spirits, the two women discover they can... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, awakens one morning to read in the Santiago newspaper that her best friend, Violeta, has been involved in a brutal act of violence. Overwhelmed with regret and plagued with guilt... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Written when he was only twenty-seven, Antwerp can be viewed as the Big Bang of Roberto Bolaño’s fictional universe. This novel presents the genesis of Bolaño’s enterprise in prose; all the elements are here, highly compressed... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) A police sergeant searches for someone (perhaps a hunchback) and a nameless young woman (red-haired, a drug addict, a witness) sodomized by a cop--or is it the narrator? A collation of 56 "scenes" set in 1980 Barcelona.
Más información: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Julián Castrodad, ex-reporter and aspiring novelist, takes a job working the night shift at the Motel Tulán. The guest go largely unnoticed until the morning one is found dead and two are gone missing.
Resumen/Reseñas: () Anywhere, Anytime deals with the consequences of war as they affect art, culture, thought, and human feelings. Through 15 short pieces set in different historical periods, the author offers a critical view on the incompatibility of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) As the rules of civilization crumble, a lawyer, a pilot, and a nurse become comrades-in-arms in the fight against extinction. But not every enemy wears a rotting face, and anyone who doesn't have your back just might have your... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After a zombie breakout ravages Spain, a few survivors arrive in the Canary Islands, one of the last zones safe from the Undead. But there, they encounter a military state embroiled in a civil war with a hungry population without... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An act of terrorism unleashed an unspeakable biological weapon. . .and hell on earth. But as the masses felled by a hideous virus rose from the dead to prey on the living, a small band of survivors defied death and its ghastly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Manuel Puig's 1976 Kiss of the Spider Woman, translated into English in 1979 and adapted as an Academy Award-winning film, expanded the idiom of the novel (mixing cinema, fiction, romance, and song) and challenged the third-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of stories that takes readers on a literary journey that climbs the Andes Mountains, navigates the great River Plate, traverses the expansive plains of the Pampas, and explores the ever-changing landscape of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A young Spaniard, born in Galicia, migrates to South America's western coast. Hard work, savings, and investments allow him to develop a prosperous enterprise. His son, and later Marco his grandson, expand the company. Domingo... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Poetry. Latin American Studies. Translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard. ASHES IN LOVE is the first English-language edition of an extraordinary poetry collection from renowned Chilean poet Oscar Hahn. Hahn's work has been... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Oscar Hahn ; translated from the Spanish by James Hoggard.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Eugene O'Neill reached the port of Buenos Aires by the end of May 1910. He was just entering his twenties and possibly running away from a problematic family which would later become the core of some of his main dramatic... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it) finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At... mostrar más
Editorial: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2017
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 199 págs.
ISBN: 9781558614277
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Traveling home to rural Patagonia, a young woman grapples with herself as she makes the journey to scatter the ashes of her friend Andrea. Twenty-one-year-old Emilia might still be living, but she's jaded by her studies and... mostrar más