Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A richly imaginative debut, detailing a girl and her father finding their way -and themselves - while they work as traveling hardware salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile, is a rare work of magic and originality. For seven-year-old M,... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: María José Ferrada ; translated by Elizabeth Bryer.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After years of hard work in a factory outside of Santiago, Chile, Ramón accepts a peculiar job: to look after a Coca-Cola billboard located by the highway. And it doesn't take long for Ramón to make an even more peculiar decision... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) More than a decade ago, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa made his first visit to the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, scanned, and eventually... mostrar más
Editorial: The Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2023
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 130 págs.
ISBN: 9781558612983
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Human Sacrifices is a short story collection by Ecuadorian author María Fernanda Ampuero that explores the horrors of inequality, exploitation, marginalization, and violence against working-class women and children under... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The nine mesmerizing stories in Humiliation, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize finalist Megan McDowell, present us with a Chile we seldom see in fiction: port cities marked by poverty and brimming with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Candela lives in a house of women nine to be exact: six sisters, their mother, their grandmother, and their rich aunt Mary, who owns the house. Candela has had her disappointments in love and floats from one job to another before... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) No one has forgotten the unsolved kidnapping of four-year-old Nicolás Acosta. It galvanized Madrid, shaking it to its core. Two years later, another young child - similar in age and appearance to Nicolás - disappears from the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cuca Martinez is the youngest child in a brood of five, born in prerevolutionary Cuba to a flighty would-be actress and a Chinese enthusiast of New World riches upon whom fortune has consistently failed to smile. At sixteen, she... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) I Took Panama is a short novel based on the life and achievements of the French Colonel Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, the man considered by Eric Sevareid to be the "inventor of Panama," and about whom President Theodore Roosevelt... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The hope of an illusion transpires through the last twenty years of Boris’s life. Having escaped Cuba for executing his colonel, the young counterintelligence lieutenant takes refuge in the United States to live a life without... mostrar más
Editorial: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 262 págs.
ISBN: 9780062990747
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera, and his dreams... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Nadila is a writer who believes blindly in the redemptive power of literature. In her search for her own voice, she sets to work studying the complete oeuvre of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. As if trying different styles... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) When this novel was first published, Dominican readers were stunned by its dark, poetic power. At last, someone had given voice to the profound sense of loss of national and personal identity felt by young Dominicans in the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Provided by publisher) Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad visions of Perfect Order on their own people. Latin American... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a State of Memory is a novelistic memoir about exile, displacement, and return. Tununa Mercado explores the psychological and physical effects of the narrator's transition into a life in exile: the splintering of her identity... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the... mostrar más