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) Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books: the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in... mostrar más
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) Covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his... 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
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated by Lucia Graves.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the 1920s, long before he wrote The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was an accomplished pilot. Along with Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet, he was chosen to pioneer new mail routes across the globe. No distance was too... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafon ; translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Julian is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Veronica to return from her art class. Each night, Julian has been improvising a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Alejandro Zambra ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity. A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship falls overboard; adrift, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Derived from factual evidence, Perez-Reverte brings us a surprising novel with an interesting twist. Teresa Mendoza is nicknamed 'The Queen of the South' by journalists, and 'The Mexican' by the authorities of three continents... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to... mostrar más