Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Seven Against Georgia is a group of "testimonials" in which seven flamboyant Spanish gay men, adopting such over-the-top noms de guerre as Herr Betty Honey and Pamela Poodle, respond to sodomy laws by sending their stories of sex... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back in: a ghost,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) SEVEN VIEWS OF THE SAME LANDSCAPE is a beautiful collection of coming-of-age tales that unfold in post-Civil War Barcelona. Told as remembered episodes largely from a child's perspective, the young Sara is entranced by the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The monotonous life of a male bookseller is shaken by a consummate female book thief named Severina. As though in an obsessive dream with blurred lines between the rational and irrational, the bookseller delves deeper and deeper... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Three men, including a railway signalman, a World War I hero and Nazi general, and a master chess player, find key events in their lives intertwining as the events of the First and Second World Wars thrust them together at the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Counter A stunning debut by one of Mexico's most dazzling younger writers. In 1916, Victor Kretzchmar and Thadeus Dreyer face each other over a chessboard on a train heading to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's disastrous Eastern... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) During World War II, General Thadeus Dreyer is put in charge of the Amphitryon Project, training doubles to stand in for leading Nazis at dangerous public events. What bearing does this have on the arrest of Adolf Eichmann in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In this bildungsroman, Donato Ndongo masterfully exposes the cultural fissures of his native land. "Spanish Guinea" is a heated, sensual landscape with exotic animals and trees, ancient rituals, ghosts, saints, and sinners. We... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown attracts the attention of a corrupt policeman who would use anyone including innocent kids to break a drug ring he believes... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The generation of Spanish artists known as the 98ers, who renounced politics and sought their country's true spirit within its landscape, culture, and character, are well represented here by thirteen stories by five outstanding... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Brilliantly chronicles the occasionally bizarre, unceasingly turbulent existence of the geographically and emotionally displaced.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A disillusioned writer in San Juan finds himself stalked by a Chinese immigrant student, and as the two realize that they share a similar plight, they move towards bitter-sweet collaborations in passion, grief, literature, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Discovered by Martha Divine in the backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Discovered By Martha Divine In The Backstreets of San Juan, picking over garbage, drugged out of his mind and singing boleros that transfix the listener, a fifteen year old hustler is transformed into Sirena Selena, a diva whose... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Mayra Santos-Febres ; translated by Stephen Lytle.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) This story of love and revolution takes place during the Argentine struggle for independence (1810-1820) and focuses on the character of the national hero, Manuel Belgrano. Belgrano's story is told through the voices of... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Ana Gloria Moya ; translated by W. Nick Hill.