Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Tells three stories (maybe two, or just one) of people living secret lives in early 21st century Mexico. They seem to indulge in wanton sex and power fantasies. But is everything what it appears to be?
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Beltran Soler is from Chile, a land in constant movement. A seismologist who knows more about the science of tectonic plate movement than about life, he is cocooned in a world of seismic data, scientific articles, and natural... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Soon to be a major motion picture, this tender, satirical, antiwar novel--now available in English for the first time--vividly captures the tedium, propaganda, and absurdity of war as it explores the joys of true friendship in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A simple muleteer caught up in the Spanish Civil War, Juan Castro Přez struggles to make his way home, confronting unrequited love, conflicts with both sides of the war, and exploitation by an opportunistic journalist, a German... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Museum or Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) is a book ahead of its time. Written during the 1930s and '40s - the heyday of Argentine literary culture - Museum is in many ways an "anti-novel: It opens with more... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Macedonio Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Schwartz ; preface by Adam Thirlwell ; introduction by the translator.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City by way of the life of a successful lawyer struck with a rare cancer of the tongue.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Publisher description) Coy is a Suspended Sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tanger uses her considerable... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and... mostrar más
Editorial: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2012
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 340 págs.
ISBN: 9781594487439
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary. Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Night Buffalo is set in Mexico City, revolving around the mysterious suicide of Gregorio, a charismatic but troubled young man who was betrayed by the two people he trusted most. The beautifully rendered narrative is driven... mostrar más