Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A story extracted from the inmost of our Hispanic reality and from the bitter experiences that could have been lived in any country of America and terminated in any northern city.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Stages of Desire, volume 39 in the Estreno Contemporary Spanish Plays series, includes two plays, Scarred by the Wind by Juan Carlos Rubio, translated from Spanish to English by Iride Lamartina-Lens; and Dark Stone by Alberto... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn Sarajevo. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the authorities arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal stories and poems is found. These... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Stories of Enchantment consists of seventeen stories by nine of nineteenth-century Spain's most well-known authors, and demonstrates convincingly that, although it had no Charles Perrault and no brothers Grimm, it maintained a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Over one hundred vignettes in Stories of Life and Death create haunting images of the author's favorite subjects: women in love, children coping with tragedy, eccentrics, the emotions of compassion, bitterness, envy and longing... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Love, death, betrayal, and sex intertwine and whirl with New York City and Havana beating in the background. In unpredictable tales woven with psychological and political significance, the protagonists struggle to transform... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A spellbinding and provocative psychological portrait that shows just how far a man will go to win the most enduring and ruthless of games: the game of power. Raised in the upper echelons of elite New York society, Thomas Spencer... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The 12 stories in this shimmering collection poignantly depict South Americans adrift in Europe. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, Strange Pilgrims is a triumph of narrative sorcery... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Back cover) Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A 1599 Roman tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo represents the way the world changed in their times, in a novel that goes from the execution of Anne Boleyn to Mexico after the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A 1599 Roman tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo represents the way the world changed in their times, in a novel that goes from the execution of Anne Boleyn to Mexico after the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Teresa Porzecanski writes from Uruguay about the multicultural experience of Jewish immigrants in Montevideo. Her exotic characters from Europe, Africa, and the New World bring together and struggle with the mixture of... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Teresa Porzecanski ; Sun inventions translated by Johnny Payne ; Perfumes of Carthage (Perfumes de Cartago) translated by Phyllis Silverstein ; introduction by Ilan Stavans.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Set in a distant future, after the invention of faster-than-light space travel has propelled a still-immature mankind into the far corners of the Milky Way, the novel features creatures of immense variety--... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This translation makes available to the English-reading public another treatment of that most famous of Spanish literary creations: the Don Juan figure. This is a Don Juan in decline who will come to grips with his emptiness... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Jacinto Octavio Picón ; translated from the Spanish by Robert M. Fedorchek ; introduction by Noël M. Valis.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Early one morning in a deserted field, Ramó n Castaños is confronted with the dead body of Adela, a lovely young girl, whom he had only admired from afar. Within an hour, rumor of the death of Ramón Castaños's girlfriend has... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Júbilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy,... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Laura Esquivel ; translated by Stephen Lytle.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) As the millions of fans of Like Water for Chocolate know, Laura Esquivel is a romanticist whose novels explore the power of love and the truths of the human heart. She returns to those themes in Swift as Desire, the story of a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A novel based on the life of the author's father follows the fortunes of don Jubilo, a telegraph operator, as his life parallels the birth, rise, and eventual fall of the telegraph.