Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In the spring of 2009, New York University's journal of creative writing, Washington Square Review, published a selection from Euler's Conjecture to much critical acclaim, featuring it at the issue's launching party. This novel... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Born in the back room of the mansion where her mother toils, and herself in service from an early age, the enchanting and ever-enchanted Eva Luna escapes oppression through story telling. Rolf Carle flees Germany for South... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller. Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When Nieve Guerra finds herself caught between the tides of her parents' turbulent relationship and a country torn apart by political unrest, she begins recording the intimate and harsh details of her life within the pages of her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A man risks his life by carefully forging bibliographic references in a parallel Barcelona; at the Cyclotech, a woman strives to keep the storytelling different engine safe from ignorant hands that could get words lost; off-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Setting out for Shanghai to settle the affairs of her recently deceased husband, Spanish painter Elvira finds herself swept up in a centuries-old quest to find the lost treasure of China's first emperor.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Spanish painter Elvira De Poulain travels to China to settle her dissolute husband's estate which she finds consists of a beautiful box with clues to the burial site of China's first Emperor. She sets out with colorful companions... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) "Michael Harney's translation of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares is the most authoritative and accurate rendering of Cervantes's classic tales to date and promises to be the translation against which future translations will be... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The twelve novellas gathered together in Exemplary Novels reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) More popular in their time than Cervantes' masterpiece, Don Quixote, Exemplary Stories are a collection of heroic tales that blend satire, irony, realism, and humor. This translation, by Walter D. Kelly, features 13 tales... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) At the height of Maria de Zayas' popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. This book gathers a representative sample of seven stories,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist -- the Parisian "Monster of Le Sentier"--Is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Juan Goytisolo ; translated by Peter Bush.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Life in a rural and isolated town in the Ecuadorian mountains. Outsiders occupy the communal land and local people fight them.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A swashbuckling tale set in the Caribbean world at the time of the French revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure who led the naval assault to take back the island of Guadeloupe from the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Alejo Carpentier ; translated by John Sturrock ; introduction by Timothy Brennan.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Face of the Earth, Heart of the Sky is a testimonial novel of the Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s that movingly relates the victimization of the indigenous peoples by the National Army and the guerrillas. Weaving together... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A multi-layered story told by two narrators: a 21st-century Emily Dickinson living in Mexico City who relates to the world vicariously through her children and a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a dying poet... mostrar más