Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece-the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism-in its first new English translation in more than half a century,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An allegorical novel following the widowed keeper of a mysterious garden. When art student Izu's teacher asks her to visit the famous collection of Mr. Murakami, she publishes a firm rebuttal to his curation. Instead of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Named one of the best books of the summer by the Wall Street Journal, Elle, the Huffington Post and Purewow "Latin America's new literary star."--The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Nine short stories that reveal the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The stories explore the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "Why me?" asks Pepe Carvalho. "Because you're an ex-communist. Because you know who we are, what we're like, where we come from, and where we're going." At a meeting of the central committee of Spain's Communist Party, in a room... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Intimate conversations, soliloquies, patches of burned diaries, existential definitions of beauty, pain, or personal discovery come together in Music for Bamboo Strings. A subtle tapestry of music imbues the story and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as "a total knockout." Now, in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first story collection by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a book that "burn[s] brighter than most anything we'd call exceptional, yesterday or today and in any language" (NPR)-now reissued by Penguin... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) My Emerald Green Dress is the riveting account of a woman's thorny yet oddly rewarding life. You will become a part of her emotional journey from the abuse she suffers as an adolescent through her maturation as a self-assured... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he finds himself drawn into an obsessive search for a local man gone missing. As the truth--not only about his father but an entire generation--comes to light, the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young writer returns to his native Argentina to uncover a mystery surrounding his dying father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man, which he ties to the country's dark political past and his family's underground... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan loves her quiet, normal life in Toronto. But when her mother returns from a cruise unexpectedly married to a billionaire and announces they are moving to L.A., Noah is suddenly shoved out of her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: () My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his - the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An international bestseller about the blackest period of Argentinean history. Luz, a twenty-year-old Argentinean, is on vacation in Madrid with her husband and newborn son. But Luz has a secret mission-to find her real father.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Every morning, Ms. Marta goes out to check that the world is how it should be: her friends sitting on a terrace playing cards, the beach where it always is, children playing in the playground.Illustrated by Ana Penyas.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) It is spring 1986 in the city of Santiago and Augusto Pinochet is losing his grip on power. In one of the city's many poor neighborhoods, the Queen of the Corner, a hopeless and lonely romantic, embroiders linens for the... mostrar más