Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga weaves a luminous, insightful story of love and friendship, passion and betrayal, lunacy and mental illness. Set in Mexico City, The Night Buffalo revolves around... mostrar más
Editorial: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2023
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 354 págs.
ISBN: 9781501187988
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When a horribly violent confrontation occurs outside of Cauca, Colombia, only a young boy is around to witness it. But no sooner does the violence happen than it disappears, vanished without a trace. Nobody claims to have seen... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A dizzying look at the backrooms of literature, with petty squabbles, long-nurtured grudges, envied or undeserved prizes, failing publishers, and self-important critics, The No Variations is a serious game, or perhaps a frivolous... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Hailed as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, The No World Concerto is a many-layered puzzle concerning an old screenwriter who has holed up in a shabby hotel in a never-named but familiar city in order to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Picaresque novel of the Spanish Civil War written by one of the most important post-WWII members of the Surrealist Movement. Written by Galician surrealist artist and communist revolutionary E.F. Granell, The Novel of the... mostrar más
Editorial: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2006
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 258 págs.
ISBN: 0805077812
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A comic odyssey of a hapless hero ensnared by globalization, humanitarian aid, and the international sex trade, this story takes place in a pitiless world where the have-nots will do anything to become haves, while the privileged... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Humberto, who lives and works at a convent home for old women, loses his sanity as he becomes obsessed with black magic and his duty to protect a monstrous child.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com)I know what really happened.I read in the fat man's annals my mother's memory and my false father's words:"Watch out for the yellow amatory gloves. At times they escape from the confines of the fat man and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One of the most remarkable books of contemporary Mexican literature, The Obstacles is the story of young writers coming of age in a world dominated entirely by their own fictions. It tells, in alternating chapters, the stories of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this timely political thriller, CIA special agent Curtis Fitzgerald, scholar Simone Casoloro, and historian Michael Asbury, must race against the clock to find trillions of dollars worth of stolen funds to prevent global... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American author, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers - particularly his encounter with one of Villa's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Haunting and enigmatic, these nine loosely connected stories are evidence of the growing field of Jewish-Latin American fiction. 'A Heaven Without Crows,' structured as a letter from Kafka to his friend Max Brod, details the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The Other Son of God is the English version of Al norte de Dios (1994), the tenth novel by the renowned Ecuadorian writer, Nelson Estupinan Bass (1912-2002). The author situates the work within the realm of the fantastic, a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Nelson Estupiñán Bass ; translated by Henry J. Richards.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Editor Soleida Ríos set a difficult task for herself and nearly three dozen other Cuban women writers, artists, and thinkers. She asked each to "choose a mask. With it she spins her story so that her own image appears in the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself -- and not for the first time - drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. When Kristen, a researcher hired by... mostrar más