Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Drawn to sixteen-year-old Lucia during a visit to Madrid's Prado museum, art historian Manuel draws parallels between Lucia and Juana the Mad, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose story Lucia and Manuel find... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Drawn to sixteen-year-old Lucia during a visit to Madrid's Prado museum, art historian Manuel draws parallels between Lucia and Juana the Mad, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose story Lucia and Manuel find... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Rosalie Knecht.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a rich, luscious style bordering on magical realism, Haghenbeck takes readers on an intriguing ride through Frida's life, including her long and tumultuous relationship with her lover Diego Rivera, the development of her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Originally published in 1968, The Secret Crypt is something of a cult classic in Mexican literature. Elizondo's impassioned, breathless prose launches the reader into a labyrinth that is also a hall of mirrors. Here, we find a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Salvador Elizondo ; translated by Joshua Pollock.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Eduardo Sacheri ; translated by John Cullen.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Retired detective Benjamín Chaparro is still obsessed by the decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the case, he also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of short fiction gathers everything the author was working on before his death, including a story about a North American journalist receiving a mysterious call and a woman's recounting of the loss of her virginity.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A treasury of posthumous Bolano stories.Contents: Preliminary note -- Colonia Lindavista -- The secret of evil -- The old man of the mountain -- The colonel's son -- Scholars... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1497 Milan, a Papal Inquisitor seeks to confirm, or deny, the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1497 a Dominican inquisitor is sent to Milan to supervise the final phase of the painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Never a conformist, da Vinci creates a masterpiece that raises questions that have yet to be... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortázar ("If there's one person in my country I feel close to, it's Roberto Arlt"), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A motley group of men who meet to play dominoes in a 1922 Mexico City hotel bar witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) La sombra del Caudillo was first published in 1929 in Spain where Guzman had fled in 1923 and settled to avoid the wrath of Obregon and called for supporting Adolfo de la Huerta's candidacy for president. With this publication of... mostrar más