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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Nicolás asks his very sleepy father to tell story after story and hears of a man who sleeps in his umbrella, another in the sea, and a third in a monkey's cage.Illustrations by Diego Bianki.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Three generations, a surprise confession and many secrets. Several Asturian women tell their histories in eighteen gripping stories, retold by Paquita Suarez Coalla. The ferocious Franco dictatorship, the Spanish Civil War,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners face a firing squad. Among them is Rafael Sánchez Mazas-writer, fascist, and founder of the Spanish Falange. As the machine guns begin to fire... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Solitaire of Love explores the sense of emotional exile that sexual passion can evoke. Tracing the course of a relationship as it evolves into uncompromising self-destruction, the narrator of Solitaire of Love becomes addicted... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Cristina Peri Rossi ; translated from the Spanish by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne is summoned back home from vacation by his sister, whose childhood friend Anita has been raped and nearly killed by unknown assailants. Anita stands in line to receive a legacy of some 200... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence--sometimes directly, sometimes only in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Being economical with the truth allows a photographer to understand something of which she would have preferred to have remained ignorant. A chance meeting at a regimental reunion obliges a veteran of the Korean War to confront... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrell--eccentric Barcelona businessman, construction magnate, dreamer, and patron of poets and painters--disappeared not long after announcing plans to travel to the South Pacific... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella's braids... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Spaces in Between is a collection of short stories. Social commentary is expressed not through a direct invasive dialogue, but rather by evocative introspections of prose directly linked to the political and economical status... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Explore Spain's rich literary landscape with some of the country's best contemporary writers. Arranged geographically, these 18 stories, many of which appear in English for the first time, transport the reader through Spain's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) These eleven tales are by four outstanding authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include "El Hechicero," by Juan Valera, an allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend... mostrar más