Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a collection of stories that explore life's mystery, a tiger stalks a vacation home and a man discovers that in the mystery he is reading, he is the victim.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Eugenia Blanc, a young Caraqueñan and quintessential teenager at war with the world around her, has one aim: after graduating from high school, to abandon Venezuela definitively. She embarks on a spontaneous road trip in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The tale of a young writer who falls for a woman who disappears while he is pretending to edit a book that doesn't exist, it brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, and life. And with a beguiling form that... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Two Chilean university students, Emilia and Julio, become inseparable lovers until their relationship changes and Emilia mysteriously disappears from Chile.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves, and try new identities on for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Boxwood might perhaps be best described as a kind of whirlwind: a vortex of marvelous writing about folklore, traditions, superstitions, cooking, nautical disasters on the Coast of Death (ships from afar spilling cargoes of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Inspired by a real-life event of undeclared cash carried from Venezuela to Argentina in 2007, Briefcases from Caracas is an extraordinarily literary blend of the classic noir novel and international political thriller, the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The antic and often dire stories in Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino depict the violence and corruption that plague Mexico today, but they are also deeply ruminative and layered explorations of the narrative impulse and the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodie's Report," he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Out of love and desperation, a man suddenly sees the possibility of changing his life completely and goes for it. It's a daring move, and as with every bold venture, there's a price to pay.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, By Night in Chile is the final testimony of Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix―Chilean priest and member of Opus Dei, eminent literary critic and failed poet―... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life. He believes he is... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of erotic fiction from Latin American authors.Contents: The killing of the saints — Alex Abella ; The infinite plan — Isabel Allende ; In the name of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Through an ingenious structure that jumps from narrator to narrator and spans decades, Call Me Brooklyn follows the life of Gal Ackerman, a Spanish orphan adopted during the Spanish Civil War and raised in Brooklyn, NY. Moving... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intelligence and sensitivity do not endear him to the other children at school. He loves... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) "A darkly magical tale of a haunted young dreamer, born in the wrong body and time, and believing himself to be a doomed prophetess from ancient Greek mythology"-- Cuba in the 1970s. Ten-year-old Rauli lives in hostile world:... mostrar más