Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A tremendous introduction to twenty-eight of the most influential Spanish-language authors of the twentieth century, A Thousand Forests in One Acorn combines interviews with these authors—about their influences... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Translated into English, the novel Morsamor is set in 1521. Morsamor is a young Spaniard whose name is a combination of the Latin words for Death and Love. He is accompanied by a lay brother serving him as squire, and who is... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Accompanied by an introduction to the text that situates it historically, this volume offers a translation of what is perhaps the most picturesque and tragic of all of the plays of the Spanish Romantic theatre.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A mother and daughter try desperately to get to Salto, Uruguay, where their husband and father is being taken under military guard as a political prisoner, and the mother writes in her diary between 1972 and 1974.Postscript by... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Miguel Barnet's A True Story is based on the life of Julián Mesa, a Cuban living in New York City. The novel spans the years between the 1930s to the 1980s as the protagonist moves from Cuba to the US. Throughout the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) During their travels in the Cambodian jungle, two sisters, Camila and Margara, meet David Masters-Iturbe and discover that they all have something in common--their Mexican heritage. The three proceed to tell stories in order to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a short story by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1955 in the journal Casa de las Américas. The story is a magical-realist allegory that follows the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Week in October is a thriller for those who usually prefer a good love story. Clara Griffin, the beautiful wife of a successful Chilean architect, courageously confronts a life-threatening illness while recording her thoughts... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.Contents: Flight / Mayra Santos-Febres ; Nothing to do... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her roommate Susana,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men into her "services". Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity, the luscious... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Daniel Chavarría ; translation by Carlos Lopez.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the vein of the writings of Paul Bowles, Paul Theroux, and V.S. Naipaul, The African Shore marks a major new installment in the genre of dystopic travel fiction. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, prominent in today's Guatemalan literary world... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Rodrigo Rey Rosa ; translated by Jeffrey Gray.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This anthology is the first of its kind on Puerto Rican literature. The comprehensive introduction traces the history of the representation of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the short story, paying special attention to circumstances... mostrar más