Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Cesar is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle,... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Katherine Silver.
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) At the center of The Lizard's Tale is Antonio Muñoz-Roa, a prominent painter whose circumstances bear a striking resemblance to Donoso's own when he wrote the novel. Hiding in his Barcelona apartment, obsessed with... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: José Donoso ; edited by Julio Ortega ; translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the forty-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into his... mostrar más
Editorial: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 481 págs.
ISBN: 9781984898630
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The third novel in the internationally bestselling White City Trilogy sees Kraken on the hunt for a murderer whose macabre crimes are lifted straight from history. Kraken is charged with investigating the death of a businessman... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In approximately seventy-two hours, a little known Middle Eastern terrorist group plans to bring about the end of the world, and a central aspect of their plan is the kidnapping of Martin Fabor, an undercover American scientist.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization the upper reaches of a great South American river.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) La Loca de Gandoca caused a national outcry in Costa Rica when it was published in 1992. It blew the whistle on a secret plot by government officials and private investors to develop the Gandoca-Manzanilla Wildlife Refuge, which... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Two "renderings of a Mexican society fast unraveling under the mounting influence of European culture.Edited and with an introduction by Margo Glantz. Illustrations by José María Villasana.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set in Cuba and Miami, from the 1940s to the present, two Afro-Cuban women narrate their life stories. One leaves a small town in the central part of the island to work as a maid in Havana in prerevolutionary Cuba. The other, her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After meeting during a train ride from Milan to Venice, a young opera singer and a married woman begin a passionate love affair.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Mangy Parrot has become a Mexican classic beloved by generations of Latin American readers. Now, in vibrant American idiom, translator David Frye captures the exuberance of Lizardi's tale-telling as the author follows his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The author follows his narrator and alter ego, Periquillo Sarniento, through a series of misadventures that exposes the ignorance and corruption plaguing Mexican society on the eve of the wars for independence. Raw descriptions... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The action of the wondrous final volume in Spanish author Palma's speculative thriller trilogy (which began with "The Map of Time" unfolds in several Victorian eras in parallel universes, beginning with esteemed... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty, forever being matched with men her family considers suitable,... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Félix J. Palma ; translated by Nick Caistor.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) About to turn forty, Marién Valbuena, finds herself evaluating her relationships, her faith and her life. Two millennia separate her and Mary, a young woman in Ancient Judea. While Marién can't find a reason to hold on to a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Martyrs of Anahuac is a translation of Eligio Ancona's Los Martires del Anahuac (1873). In this historical novel, Ancona employs the writings of Hernan Cortes and others to present an encompassing view of the conquest of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra takes you on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind European art--complete with gorgeous, full-color inserts... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Medicine Man, which won first place at the 1955 Cannes film festival, is indeed a masterful and compelling narrative, always surprising the reader with a final, unexpected twist, eloquently illustrates in "The Sad Story of... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Francisco Rojas González ; translated by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona.