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
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Family Album is Ecuadorian author Gabriela Alemán's rollicking follow up to her acclaimed English-language debut, Poso Wells. Alemán is known for her spirited and sardonic take on the fatefully interconnected--and often highly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar's genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She's not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Mexican government's brutal repression of the Student Movement of 1968 in the infamous Massacre of Tlatelolco exposed and exacerbated a serious crisis of political legitimacy. This study examines the cultural impact of this... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Originally published in Spanish in 1981, Fiesta in April is a story about political prisoners, and the abuses and psychological torture they face. As opposed to using conventional prose, the author weaves dramatic poetry into a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In this "allegorical, bitter, and melancholy farewell to an Argentina from which [the author] was about to be permanently self-exiled," Cortázar tells the story of Juan and Clara who should be studying for their exam, but... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) For the first time in English, Severo Sarduy's most autobiographical work, centered on two transvestites who undergo oppositional sexual surgeries (one is castrated, the other is given a new member). This convention-defying,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The Flower from Castile Trilogy opens in 1491 during the tumultuous unification of Spain under Catholicism. The battle for the conquest of Granada, which was held by the Islamic Moors for 700 years, empties Spain’s coffers and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Fog is a fresh new translation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla, first published in 1914. An early example of modernism's challenge to the conventions of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Fog shocked critics but... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) While Henry Ford, safe in Detroit, schemes to produce his own rubber for the Ford Motor Company, Horacio is the man who struggles to run Fordlandia, the rubber plantation in the jungles of the Amazon.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A novel of love, treachery, and intrigue, Foreign Propery tells of a Mexican family's lost ancestral home and examines the historic relationship between Mexico and Texas. The story is set in San Antonio.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Eighteen-year-old Alexander Cold and his grandmother travel to Africa on an elephant-led safari, but discover a corrupt world of poaching and slavery.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.Contents: Foreword by... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set entirely at Wybrany College--a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities--Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's "program" is always... mostrar más