Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Traverse Chile's literary and geographic landscape with some of its best writers. Let Ariel Dorfman take you to Santiago with a prodigal son, discovering his own country for the first time; travel to the remote south with Enrique... mostrar más
Editorial: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2022
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 358 págs.
ISBN: 9780593492505
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A fascinating collection of three strange and thought-provoking short stories by acclaimed and prize-winning Spanish-language Mexican writer, Mario Bellatin: Chinese Checkers; Hero Dogs; and My Skin Luminous, stories describing... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Christ versus Arizona turns on the events in 1881 that surrounded the shootout at the OK Corral, where Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Virgil and Morgan Earp fought the Clantons and the McLaurys. Set against a backdrop of an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City", the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to the first child born on the 500th anniversary of Columbus'... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Chronicle of San Gabriel explores an isolated rural community from the perspective of a city dweller. After his mother's death, Lucho, a teenager, is sent from Lima to stay with his relatives at the San Gabriel hacienda; there... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms, Cleopatra... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Cleopatra Dismounts is an imagined life of the Egyptian queen, called Queen of Kings by her subjects and widely said to be the incarnation of the goddess Isis. In the opening section, with Marc Antony dying in her arms,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Closed for Repairs is a series of eleven vignettes that depict Cuban ingenuity in the face of urban problems. Each solution is framed with humor and irony and gives a glimpse of life on the island today. In a clever fashion,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When a bookmobile visits Luis' neighborhood in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, he and the other children of Villa Nueva discover a joy they cannot help but bring back home.Illustrated by Rosana Faría & Carla Tabora
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) 1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with Menéndez, the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) 1907: In a sanatorium in Temperley, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Doctor Quintana falls in love with Menéndez, the head nurse--of whom he knows almost nothing, not even her first name. Motivated by this love--which he shares... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odría. Over beers and a sea of freely spoken words, the... mostrar más