Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Isabel Allende’s first novel to be set in the United States and to portray American characters, The Infinite Plan is a vivid tale of one man’s search for love, and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of Gregory Reeves's journey from childhood to middle age and long-sought peace and happiness. Gregory's journey is marked by the contending philosophies of his mother's Bahai faith; his father's personally revealed,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who escaped to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) In Carlos Rojas's imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Carlos Rojas ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalry romances that he determines to turn knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translated by John Rutherford ; with an introduction by Roberto González Echevarría.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Many critics consider The Initials of the Earth to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jess Daz. Born in Havana in 1941, Daz was a witness to the Revolution... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Pedro Juan's adventures with various women feature a kind of modulated macho: he's not particularly interested in any of them other than physically, especially wife Julia, but he's very good at articulating his boredom and their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of The Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Detective Amaia Salazar leads an investigation of the murder of two young women which takes her back to her village in the middle of Basque country where secrets, myths and superstitions await.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An enchanting multigenerational epic of three families - from Africa, Spain, and China - and their bond to one another and the island they call home. Cecilia is alone in a city that haunts her. Life in Miami evokes memories of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After its liberation from harsh French rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of King Henri Christophe's black regime, which was built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down... mostrar más