Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Regina, the author and main character of our story, is chased by her duties as a mother and homemaker, the transit authorities, Thanksgiving supper, her longing to write a new novel, and characters from stories written years... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Spanish journalist and art historian Jaime Azcárate has always been a magnet for trouble. So when the authorities call on him to help investigate a museum heist while he’s enjoying a rare vacation, he is more annoyed than... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Two Bodies is a text that obliquely intersects Chilean national history and the personal history of Esteban, stories that circle graves and bodies and that end up running into each other at a red letter. Fragments of events in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Venezuela, 1992. CIA agent Eva and her Cuban counterpart, Mauricio, must deal with each other, imprisoned crime lord Pran, journalist Mónica, and Swiss banker Günther Müller while reacting to Hugo Chávez, the charismatic and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The writing of the late Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940-1985) resists almost any attempt to characterize, let alone summarize. An iconoclastic figure of the Latin American literary milieu of the mid-to-late twentieth century,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garca Mrquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Seven short stories explore the hard lives of women of different ages on both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Considered the first novel of Mexican immigration depicting the diverse experiences of Mexican immigrants.With an introduction by John Pluecker.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) What does the perfect family have to fear most? The perfect stranger. From the outside, Frank and Grace seem to have the perfect family. He's a loving husband, she's a devoted wife, and together they have two happy children. But... mostrar más
Editorial: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2023
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 183 págs.
ISBN: 9780063256682
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Inside the great landfill at Río Azul, Única and her friends, her family, society's cast-offs, struggle to survive on what those in the city throw away…
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost, where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought--and of love--can both inspire and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In USMAÍL, Pedro Juan Soto gives us a masterful description of life on the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques during the 1930s, 40s and 50s as seen through the eyes of the islanders themselves. The story follows the life of a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Santiago Ramón y Cajal ; translated from the Spanish by Laura Otis.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Stories about the bright and dark side of scientific curiosity from a world-famous scientist. Fearing they would compromise his scientific career, neurobiologist Ramón y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who became one of the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Martín Caparrós ; translated by Jasper Reid.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career], "Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas's finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death... mostrar más