Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Philosophically engaged and darkly moving, the twenty stories in Nest in the Bones span three decades from Antonio di Benedetto's wildly various career. From his youth in Argentina to his exile in Spain after enduring... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This brilliantly ironic novel about literature and writing, in Vila-Matas’s trademark witty and erudite style, is told in the form of a lecture delivered by a novelist clearly a version of the author himself. The “lecturer” tells... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Never, Ever Ever, Coming Down, the first collection of short stories by Iván Monalisa Ojeda, gathers the voices of transsexuals, transvestites, locas and two-spirits who roam through the nights and streets of Manhattan -its... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Review of Contemporary Fiction is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.Contents: ... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) With the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Cuba's political future, the onslaught of tourists, and the economic upheavals in their society, Cubans face an important, perhaps epochal, moment of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Fernando del Paso ; translated by Alfonso González & Stella T. Clark.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) If there was not so much fiction in News from the Empire, it could be called a work of history. In fact, the focus of this broad work is history itself, as well as the many unrecorded lives and events that history has forgotten... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Page 4 of cover) On a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife turning into... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale of doomed love set in the social and political turmoil of Europe between the wars, the lasting effects of which are felt in the lovers' intimate conversations.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Colombian philosophy student is arrested in Bangkok, accused of drug trafficking. He risks the death penalty and longs for his distant sister Juana. During their childhood, Juana promised to do everything to protect him from... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Colombian philosophy student is arrested in Bangkok, accused of drug trafficking. He risks the death penalty and longs for his distant sister Juana. During their childhood, Juana promised to do everything to protect him from... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Alberto has endured political imprisonment for writings unacceptable to the Castro regime in Cuba. His nocturnal wanderings in Havana lead him from a colonial cafe, where he begins an intense romance with a young woman, to an... mostrar más
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