Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga weaves a luminous, insightful story of love and friendship, passion and betrayal, lunacy and mental illness. Set in Mexico City, The Night Buffalo revolves around... mostrar más
Editorial: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2023
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 354 págs.
ISBN: 9781501187988
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And... mostrar más
Editorial: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2006
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 258 págs.
ISBN: 0805077812
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A comic odyssey of a hapless hero ensnared by globalization, humanitarian aid, and the international sex trade, this story takes place in a pitiless world where the have-nots will do anything to become haves, while the privileged... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One of the most remarkable books of contemporary Mexican literature, The Obstacles is the story of young writers coming of age in a world dominated entirely by their own fictions. It tells, in alternating chapters, the stories of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American author, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho Villa's soldiers - particularly his encounter with one of Villa's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The celebrated American writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce mysteriously disapeared in Mexico during its civil war. In this brilliant novel, Carlos Fuentes imagines the fate of Bierce among Pancho Villa's troops and dramatizes... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Haunting and enigmatic, these nine loosely connected stories are evidence of the growing field of Jewish-Latin American fiction. 'A Heaven Without Crows,' structured as a letter from Kafka to his friend Max Brod, details the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. When Kristen, a researcher hired by the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A paperback sensation in Argentina, Spain, and the United Kingdom, The Oxford Murders has been hailed as "a remarkable feat" (Time Out London) and its author as "one of Argentina's most distinctive voices" (The Times Literary... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) It begins on a summer day in Oxford, when a young Argentine graduate student finds his landlady-an elderly woman who helped crack the Enigma Code during World War II -murdered in cold blood. Meanwhile, a renowned Oxford logician... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retreated to a tower overlooking the Spanish coast, where he paints a vast mural incorporating the indelible images of conflict he’s witnessed in his lifetime.One night,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Arriving in Paris for their inaugural meeting during the 1889 World's Fair, an exclusive society of the world's most renowned detectives wonders at the absence of its co-founding member, who has sent a secret message about a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Pablo De Santis ; translated from Spanish by Mara Lethem.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) At the end of the 19th century, a successful store owner, Stamos Marikanis, marries GemaUs most beautiful woman. But his bride dies in a bizarre accident. Twenty years later, Stamos comes back to life in the form of Jeronimo... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In an unnamed town in the Ecuadorian Andes, a small wooden icon - La Virgen Pipona (the Potbellied Virgin) - conceals the documents that define the town's social history. That history has been dominated by the women of the... mostrar más