Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Taking work as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon, Captain Alatriste, accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, participates in a grueling battle on the high seas that brings Íñigo's readiness for independence into... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Arturo Perez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this translated Spanish classic, Juan Ramón Jiménez tells his burro Platero about their native Andalusian village of Moguer. Their dialogue creates an evanescent portrait of provincial Spain--its streets, homes, animals,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The first short story collection in the Margellos series, from a master of the genre and an irrepressible critic during Argentina's brutal years of repression Acclaimed for the gemlike perfection of her short... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter's horrifying death.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter's horrifying death.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Seventeen short stories by contemporary Mexican authors born in the '50s and '60s, all well-established writers in the prime of their careers. Some have already achieved critical acclaim in the U.S., but many of these prize-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lacking all memory of the first five years of her life because of a brutal trauma, Aurora del Valle is raised by her regal grandmother Paulina and eventually seeks to confront the mystery of her past, in a novel set in late-... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her overwhelming grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events that occurred when she was a child in San Francisco's Chinatown. When she becomes... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Aurora del Valle, the daughter of a privileged family in 1890s Chile, sets out to unlock the family secrets that shaped her childhood.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Eugenio Cambaceres was the first to introduce the naturalist manner of Emile Zola to Argentinean literature in the late nineteenth century. The work of Cambaceres, a precursor to the contemporary Argentinean novel, is crucial for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Delicado and her perennial sidekick, Sgt. Fermin Garzon, are thrown into a high-profile case-the murder inquiry into a much reviled gossip columnist, Ernestos Valdes-after the investigators originally assigned to it are pulled... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Stories of love, war, and vengeance, focusing on the tiny, remote village of Tamoga-- a place where vendettas are passed down from generation to generation, and where violence has left its trace in every corner
Más información: Responsibility: Julián Ríos ; translated by Nick Caistor ; with a forword by the author.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Prodigies explores the story of the poet Novalis's birthplace in the German town of Weissenfels after it is converted into a boarding house. Moving, subtle, and full of wit, irony, and dreams, this novel fills the house with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this artful fusion of espionage thriller and science fiction, Manuel Puig tells one story shared by three women -- an actress in the 1930s, living in her husband's fairy-tale castle; a young woman in Mexico City in the 1970s... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This volume offers the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of Puerto Rican poetry available in English. It includes the work of the sixty-four poest, as well as many previously inaccessible selections from Puerto Rico'... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) "Puppet is a complex, challenging, and ultimately compelling narrative. Revolving around the Chicano movement of the 1970s and 1980s, it tells the story of the murder of Puppet and the subsequent police cover-up. Just as... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) Simón Cardoso had been dead thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, spotted him at lunchtime in the lounge bar in Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory. Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, vanished during a trip to map an... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Tomás Eloy Martínez ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Captain Alatriste attempts to rescue the daughter of a friend from a convent, but finds himself involved in a political and religious conspiracy connected with the Inquisition.