Editorial: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2018
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
ISBN: 9781936932443
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Longlisted for the 2018 National Translation Award "A wild, brutal paean to freedom...' Somers' feminism is profound, and complicated." -NPR "A surreal, nightmarish book about women's struggle for autonomy-and how that struggle... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Publisher description) Coy is a Suspended Sailor without a ship. At an auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century. Tanger uses her considerable... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and... mostrar más
Editorial: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2012
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 340 págs.
ISBN: 9781594487439
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary. Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Night Buffalo is set in Mexico City, revolving around the mysterious suicide of Gregorio, a charismatic but troubled young man who was betrayed by the two people he trusted most. The beautifully rendered narrative is driven... mostrar más
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