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) Set during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Celia in the Revolution is the last in a series of young adult novels written by Encarnación Aragoneses, known by the pen name Elena Fortún, one of the most prolific and popular Spanish... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) These eight interludes, which Cervantes published in 1615 but never saw performed, are short, comic plays that explore the underbelly of Renaissance Spanish society. Their characters include hillbillies and con artists, pimps and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The crowning achievement of Afro-Colombian author Manuel Zapata Olivella, Changó depicts the African American experience from a perspective of gods who stand over the world and watch. The centennial anniversary release of this... 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) Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help... 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) Childish Literature is a charming and wide-ranging collection of short stories, essays, and even a couple of poems produced under the influence of fatherhood, a transformative experience that reshapes and enlivens the author'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
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate the merits of Teillier and Millan (but never Neruda - beyond the pale). Then, nine years after their... 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: (WorldCat) After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love, Carla. Though their desire for each other is still intact, much has changed: among other things, Carla now has a six-year-old... 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