Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first book to be published in English by the award-winning Cuban writer Eliseo Alberto, this gripping kaleidoscopic novel tells about madness, love, death, and the collision of strangers' lives on one fateful night in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Carmen and her brother are sent to live with relatives after their family breaks apart. Imprisoned in a sprawling house ruled by Grandmother and Aunt Malva - table dictators who strive to maintain absolute control over their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Carmen and her brother are sent to live with relatives after their family breaks apart. Imprisoned in a sprawling house ruled by Grandmother and Aunt Malva - table dictators who strive to maintain absolute control over their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Draws not only upon the literary heritage of the author's native Argentina, but also upon the body of work that has been formed into a South American canon, embracing those such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Caterva (meaning 'throng' or 'horde') tells the story of seven erudite, homeless, and semi-incompetent radicals traveling from city to city in an attempt to foment a revolution: conspiring with striking workers, setting off... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in 14th century Barcelona, the 80-year construction of the Church of Santa Maria affects the lives of the citizens, those who devoted their lives to building it, and those who were sheltered there.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Written in 1882 by Cirilo Villaverde in exile in New York City, but set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel recounts a story of the moral, political, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A Spanish Romeo and Juliet, Celestina was published in 1499 and became Spain's first-ever bestseller. Readers thrilled to the salty character of Celestina and her world of prostitutes and black magic even as they mourned the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Translated into English and spanning three continents, this epic novel of the African Diaspora in the Americas recounts over five centuries of displacement and servitude. Employing multiple narrative voices and encompassing all... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Luisa Davila is an established Spanish mystery writer who decides that her detective's next case will involve the suspicious death of a child at an elite private day school. However, following the death of one of her daughter's... mostrar más
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) 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