Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A truly unforgettable story, "Nights in Heaven" is a splendidly crafted tale filled with suspense, adventure, and the rich beauty of the Mexican wilderness. This thoroughly absorbing novel set in 20th Century Mexico is a blend... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mexico City becomes the setting for a bizarre mystery, as private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne investigates the death of a man entangled with a terrifying, repressive paramilitary organization.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mexico City becomes the setting for a bizarre mystery, as private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne investigates the death of a man entangled with a terrifying, repressive paramilitary organization.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Stories from northern Mexico, the apocalyptic urban zones and desert landscapes just south of the border.Contents: Real life ; The darkest night ; Just don't take the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) It is the late 1970s and Argentina is wracked by the worst excesses of its “Dirty Wars,” as thousands have disappeared or have been tortured and murdered by a dying dictatorship. Luz Goldman, on the other hand, lives in Buenos... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Luz Goldman, the narrator of No One Said a Word, grows up in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the seventies when Argentina is ruled by a military dictatorship. But politics is only peripheral in Paula... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Joaquin Buitrago, a photographer in the Castaneda Insane Asylum, believes a patient is a prostitute he knew years earlier. His obsession in confirming Matilde's identity leads him to explore the clinics records, and her tragic... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lorenza and her son, Mateo, return to Buenos Aires as they try to find Ramon, Mateo's father, who was a political radical with Lorenza in Argentina's "Dirty War," as Lorenza deals with her memories of the past and Mateo, who is... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Laura Restrepo ; translated from the Spanish by Ernesto Mestre-Reed.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Barcelona, 1986: The dictatorship is over and life is free and easy. But what if you can't forget the seventies? Elisa's troubled past comes back to her in the form of her ex-husband, Arnau, who needs her help to exonerate a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the middle of the Nevada desert stands a solitary poplar tree, covered in hundreds of pairs of shoes. Farther along U.S. Route 50, a lonely prostitute falls in love with a collector of found photographs. In Las Vegas, an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Somewhere in Spain, Marc, an avid reader of the Philips Agricultural Guide: 1968, pegs mathematical formulas to clotheslines on the roof of an eight-story building. In London, the artist Jodorkovski spends hours painting tiny... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a deserted city near Chernobyl, a man returns to wander the desolate streets. In a bar on a small island south of Sardinia, a writer struggling to complete the Project drifts into reverie.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A brilliant novel of love, international smuggling, and the art of letter writing is offered by one of Latin America's promising young literary talents. J. lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A scorching exposé of the Spanish government's corruption and abuses of power, this novel is famed as a catalyst to the Philippine Revolution. Noli Me Tángere was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico/US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The conquest of Mexico is over, and Juan de Tonanes is one of so many soldiers without glory who roam like beggars for the land they helped subdue. When he receives one last mission, to hunt down a renegade Indian who's called... mostrar más