Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cat sitter, insomniac, former schoolteacher. Ania worries she is a "stand-in occupant," a substitute in her own life. When she receives a request from her father to visit her dying uncle Agustín in Argentina, she makes the long... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Many years after a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways from a storm and receives a gold-and-diamond emblem from a grateful survivor, the captain's son learns of the object's link to a World War II tale about a man's... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gómez-Jurado ; translated by Daniel Hahn.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, The Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but The... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) "The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history" -- 2014. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday: a failing body, a slower mind, and the ideals and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In post-Napoleonic Germany, a traveller on his way to Dessau stops off for a night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He intends to move on the following day, but the town begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Anna Thalberg is shunned by her village for her red hair and provocative beauty, so the neighbors do not intervene when she is accused of witchcraft and imprisoned. Only her husband Klaus and Father Friedrich, a priest... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Relates the wanderings of the fictional poet Arnold Faría Utrillo during the first half of the twentieth century. From the San Francisco earthquake to Paris between the wars, from his mother's youth in the Mexican port of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An artist becomes insane because of his inability to communicate. A novel that tells the story of an artist who becomes insane because of his inability to communicate.With an introduction by Colm Tóibín.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) It's 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony. The narrator of Nona Fernández's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mexican crime writer Taibo and a real-life spokesperson for the Zapatista movement, Subcomandante Marcos, provide alternating chapters for this postmodern comedic mystery about good, evil and modern revolutionary politics. Elas... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Demetrio Macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villaas army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A masterful translation that embraces Azuela's lyrical portrayal of culture and landscape . . . The Underdogs tells the story of a courageous Indian farmer who almost unwittingly rises to a generalship in Pancho Villa's rebel... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Renowned as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts a young peasant's recruitment into Pancho Villa's army. Demetrio Macías is compelled to defend his home from attacks by the Federales who serve... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) "The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution" is Mariano Azuela's fictional account of the Mexican Revolution. Originally published as a newspaper serial in 1915, then as a complete novel in 1920, it was first translated... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer's part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diacuté, and his subsequent loss of belief... mostrar más