Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of seventeen short stories, presented in Spanish and English, that examine the lives of Chicano men and women in the contemporary United States.Contents:He walked in and sat down -- Entró y se sentó -- Road detours... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In bursts of fiction and nonfiction, Heart of Scorpio tells the tragic story of ex-champion boxer, Antonio Cervantes (Kid Pambelé), using four distinct voices that represent the personal, family, social, and public aspects of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Awash in small-town gossip, petty jealousy, and intrigues, Manuel Puig's Heartbreak Tango is a comedic assault on the fault lines between the disappointments of the everyday world, and the impossible promises of commercials, pop... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A forlorn psychoanalyst; a cultural historian exploring the possibility of life after death; a middle-aged couple that schedules a rendezvous with a younger version of itself; a man who compensates for his phobia of death and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Three narrators from different historical eras are each engaged in preserving history in Carmen Boullosa's Heavens on Earth. As her narrators sense and interact with each other over time and space, Boullosa challenges the primacy... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Explores the philosopher Martin Heidegger's collusion with the Nazis through a two-part letter between the fictional Dieter Müller and his son.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Publisher's description: Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events in early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Elena Poniatowska ; translated from the Spanish by Deanna Heikkinen.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Based on Josefina Borquez, a working-class woman whose difficult life spanned some of the seminal events in early-twentieth-century Mexican history, Poniatowska's Jesusa is a tough, coarse-mouthed, cantankerous character who... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Told entirely in dialog, this is a comic novella about men pushed past their breaking point and the women who drive them crazy. A complex tale of an office worker hiring a hit man to kill his mistress, a man leaving feverish... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One of the most celebrated writers of criticism in nineteenth-century Spain, Leopoldo Alas employed his satirical talent to powerful and humorous effect in fiction as well. In His Only Son, Bonifacio Reyes, a romantic flautist by... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A novel about Hitler's persecution of Polish Jews all the way to Central America, and how they fought against his plans for their destruction. The novel also reveals these immigrant's internal struggles for their personal... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the English-language debut novel of one of Mexico's most poignant writers, a man guilty of a minor offense finds himself caught between the tedium of his temperate city and the growing menace of crime there. After an accident-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Here is the story of two families in small-town Basque country, pitted against each other by the ideology and violence of the terrorist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Liberty), from the unrelentingly grim 1980s to October 2011... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) In time for his centenary: two groundbreaking works from a major figure of world literature, one of the founders of the Latin American Boom. With these two books--the "counter-novel" Hopscotch and the short-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) María Paz is a young Latin American woman who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as she... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) House of Mist stands as one of the first South American novels written in the style that was later called magical realism. Of this story of a young bride struggling with her marriage to an aloof landowner--and the mysteries... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "My story, the story of 'how I became a nun, ' began very early in my life; I had just turned six. The beginning is marked by a vivid memory, which I can reconstruct down to the last detail. Before, there is nothing, and after,... mostrar más