Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century wave of scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruunis researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents the "apocryphal autobiography" of author Luisa Valenzuela, who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from the ten years she lived in New York City, exploring her "dark desires," and discussing sexual fulfillment, human... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Luisa Valenzuela ; translated by Susan E. Clark.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The main character, Manuel, narrates how he resorted to brujeria—folk magic—to change his fate, or so he believes. The spell goes bad, reasons Manuel, when his mother’s life becomes endangered because he allowed her to become... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) An epic story that renews the story of Romeo & Juliet, set in a fantastic city controlled by two castles. In one of them,reules a suggestive and refined world of women, in the other one, a world of men who passion is war.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One of Cuba's most imaginative young writers presents this tale of one woman's spiritual and sexual reawakening, and a devastating portrayal of the Castro regime. In sensuous language, Valds renders day-to-day life in both urban... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The numbing rhythm of daily life in poverty-stricken Havana had deadened Danae's mind and spirit. In search of her first true love, Danae returns to the countryside of her adolescence, where the government of Fidel Castro had... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Available for the first time in a bilingual format, this addition to the Hinojosa's acclaimed Klail City Death Trap Series focuses on wealthy ranchers and their domination of the economic and political life of a small city on... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Ernesto, a man in a dystopic future Argentina, struggles to save his dying father from falling victim to the diabolical health-care system, only to learn that everyone is a patient. "In Death as a Side Effect, Ana... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Ana María Shua ; translated by Andrea G. Labinger.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a remote Andean village, three men have disappeared. Peruvian Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tomás have been dispatched to investigate, and to guard the town from the Shining Path guerrillas they assume are responsible.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Petra Delicado, a Barcelona police inspector assigned to a desk job, returns to the homicide department to investigate the rapes of young girls by a serial rapist who only leaves a circular mark on his victims' forearms.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Distinguished music critic Agustin Caban has written for a San Juan newspaper all his life. Forced to retire, he continues to haunt its offices, encouraged by his former editor. Agustin is writing his memoirs, and his editor... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) José María Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this remarkably nuanced novel, both a gripping detective story and a passionate, devastating tale of eros and insanity in Colombia, internationally acclaimed author Laura Restrepo delves into the minds of four characters.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Soledad awakes to find herself invisible, standing in the middle of Mexico City. Is she really invisible, or have others just stopped seeing her? Prisoner of her passions--to change identity, to be the object of someone's... mostrar más