Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lavinia is accomplished, independent, and fiercely modern. She is also sheltered and self-involved, until the spirit of an Indian woman warrior enters her being. Then she dares to join a revolutionary movement against a violent... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of the last member of the aristocratic Azcoitia family, a monster deliberately surrounded by other freaks to protect him from the knowledge of his deformity, The Obscene Bird of Night is a triumph of imaginative... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) While her parents sleep and other children play outside, a young girl begins to read, reveling in how books can take her anywhere and allow her to do anything.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A political exile named Ecks wanders through strange, unnamed places in search for his own soul, in this dreamlike experimental novel from the prominent Uruguayan novelist.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The Tattoo Hunter is a powerful account of the dark side of sexuality and its effects on human consciousness. Written in an exciting poetic style, this story of curiosity and seduction takes us from the very origins of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Estrella learns about her Cuban and Jewish heritage as she helps her aunt move from her Miami apartment to an assisted living community.Illustrated by Devon Holzwarth.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) While studying advanced physics at a prestigious European university, Elisa Robledo was invited to join a select research team on a secret project to manipulate String Theory. It was the opportunity of a lifetime for the eager... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This novel, originally written in Spanish, explores the lives of young Mexican American migrant workers as they struggle to find hope for a brighter future.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) "Alicia Kozameh’s 259 Leaps is a surprising, engaging, exhilarating book from a gifted writer with a major tale to tellthe contemporary experience of exile not only because of her prison experience in Argentina and her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Written in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, '2666' was greeted across Europe and Latin America as the great writer's masterpiece, surpassing even his previous work in imagination, beauty, and scope.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Luis Goytisolo's novel, 360° Diary, constitutes a reflection on the act of creativity. The novel is in the form of a diary that begins on the author's birthday and concludes one (lunar) year later. Each day of the week is... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) As one of the main characters, the intellectual Juan, puts it: to one person the City might appear as Paris, to another it might be where one goes upon getting out of bed in Barcelona; to another it might appear as a beer hall in... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Julio Cortázar ; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile.Illustrated by Gabriela Lyon
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "A moving story, powerful, celebratory, and loving."--Laura Cardona, La Nacion. Set in the midst of Argentina's military dictatorship, a poignant and evocative debut novel about family, political violence, and the consequences of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Award winning Cuban author in exile writes of a man in exile who learns of a half brother also living nearby and who must endure the terror and suspense of such a life in hiding.