Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the manner of fabled storytellers, Ponte creates a vivid picture of contemporary Cuba -- its real and imagined place in the world -- through stories told by a foreign exchange physics student, urban planners who discover an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The unimaginable has already begun.Tales from the Tortilla Curtain: There are projects under way even today that may result in a great wall between the United States and Mexico. In this day and age of fear and suspicion, we can... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Javier Amaya depicts the experience of the human being who struggles with social and economic differences and the ultimate consequences of these differences: war. Fierce, incomprehensible, and useless wars that are the result of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Contents: Mask of the monster / Matthew Baugh -- Cadavres exquis / Bill Cunningham -- When Lemmy met Jules / Terrance Dicks -- The vanishing devil / Win Scott Eckert... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "A searing family drama from one of Latin America's most original voices One trip. Two love stories. Three voices. Lito is ten years old and is almost sure he can change the weather when he concentrates very hard. His father,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-marxist and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona, when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of identifying it is through a tattoo... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the United States of Earth, Madrid, 2109, the number of techno-human deaths is rapidly growing. Detective Bruna Husky is hired to discover what's behind this wave of insanity. She must trust no one, because those who call... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) With war looming dangerously close, Ilse's school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia'... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists". The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This work contains new English translations of three short novels and seven short stories that critics have singled out as representative of Leopoldo Alas's short prose fiction. "The Two Boxes" evokes the frustration of an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans -- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A novel which tells the story of those who lost the battle that led to the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, i.e., the Aztecs.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Chronological time is abolished and space concentrated into one area in a multi-dimensional pageant of Spanish history and culture that touches upon all facets of human experience.Introduction by Jorge Volpi Escalante; afterword... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition todemocracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Just before the coup d'etat that overturned Chile's govenrment under Allende, a young, idealistic judge is posted to a provincial center in the vast northern desert. After the coup, the town is occupied by the military, which... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Carlos Franz ; translated by Leland H. Chambers.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "he Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An up-to-date translation of Cervatnes' classic 17th century novel of an old man who goes somewhat insane and believes he is a knight errant.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The hapless journey of the poor farmer Don Chipote de Jesús Maria Domínguez, who naively leaves behind his wife and children in Mexico to seek riches in the United States--where, he is assured, one can sweep up gold dust off... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Daniel Venegas ; translated from the Spanish by Ethriam Cash Brammer ; with a new introduction by Nicolás Kanellos.