Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1976, a young boy flees Buenos Aires with his opposition-supporting family, renames himself after his hero Harry Houdini, and dedicates his time in exile to mastering his role model's escape artistry.
Más información: Responsibility: Marcelo Figueras ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Peter Hook is the son of mid-sixties rock-star parents, but has managed to become a successful children's author of a series of action books and movies. This work is an exploration of the charms and perils of children's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Contents: El tragaluz del sótano = The cellar hatch / Dalila = Dalila / Entre copos, sudores y fritanga = Between snowflakes, sweat and fried meat / Interview with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A rich variety of baseball fiction exists south of the Florida Straits and the Rio Grande, but almost none available in English. This collection translates for the first time stories ranging from the highly literary to the... mostrar más
Editorial: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Ciudad: New York
Año de publicación: 2016
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 407 págs.
ISBN: 9780316354219
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) ixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy... mostrar más
Otros títulos: Klail City - Klail City y sus alrededores
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The second installment in Rolando Hinojosa's acclaimed Klail City Death Trip Series returns to South Texas, where Mexicans and Anglos share an uneasy coexistence. Don Aureliano Mora waits three years for justice... mostrar más
Editorial: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Ciudad: New York City
Año de publicación: 2018
Colección: First Feminist Press edition
Nº de páginas: 101 págs.
ISBN: 9781936932238
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with... mostrar más
Editorial: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Ciudad: New York
Año de publicación: 2018
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 104 págs.
ISBN: 9781936932245
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with the gang leader and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) La Grande--Saer's final novel, which is also a fantastic entry-point to his world--centers around two related stories: that of Gutiérrez, his sudden departure from Argentina thirty years before, and his equally mysterious return... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, withstanding brutal torture... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Larva is an account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a linguistic funhouse of puns and wordplay recalling Joyce's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.Contents: Sensini ; Henry Simon Leprince ; Enrique Martín ; A literary... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Last Night of Carnival, a collection of stories by turns erotic, surreal, and provocative, comprises an exile aesthetic, where the speaker is not only an exile from his homeland, but also from the stale middle class values of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In exile from his home country of Peru, Ricardo Funes embodies the ultimate starving artist. Fired from almost every job he's held--usually for paying more attention to literature than work--he sets himself up in a rundown shack... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Long considered by many scholars to be the first picaresque novel (or the precursor of all such novels), Lazarillo de Tormes made its initial appearance in Spain in the middle of the 16th century, on the heels of an era of novels... mostrar más