Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of two artists--writer Juan Rulfo and photographer Josephine Sacabo. In one such village of the mind,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Darkly comic and highly entertaining, Javier Valdés's stories insinuate themselves in the unsuspecting reader like a heady brew with a strange kick. From the exploits of an urban vigilante to the erotic pleasures exacted from an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lupita hard-knock life has gotten the better of her time and time again. A childhood robbed of innocence set off a chain of events that she still has not managed to control, no matter how hard she tries. Every time she thinks she... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Oscar Kortico, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales--some taller than others--of slavery, revolution, family secrets, love, and identity that span three... mostrar más
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
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.