Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Eye of the Cybele, Akashic's second release by celebrated Uruguayan mystery novelist Daniel Chavarrma, is equal parts historical epic, whodunnit-style thriller, highbrow erotica and philosophical discourse. Set in late sixth-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An undisputed modern classic of contemporary Spanish literature, it has been constantly reprinted in Spain and made into a film.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A vibrant and meticulously constructed debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown. A powerful, unsettling portrait of family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's first novel is a masterful portrayal of a society in free... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This book reflects the crude reality of rural Spain in Franco's time. It is full of human power and rich in social insight. Cela writes with great detail, but still maintains simplicity.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Everyone is resting but Paul. Paul mows, rakes, sows, and draws water. Soon Paul has beautiful plants and flowers growing all around him. But one day, the water dries up. The sun beats down. Paul despairs. But thanks to his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of twenty stories by Bolivian authors.Contents: The day of atonement / Giovanna Rivero Santa Cruz -- Buttons / Claudia Adriázola -- Dochera / Edmundo Paz-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called "the Goat," still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republicand finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The sordid, thrilling, and comic story of two young lovers--affluent Lala and impoverished Guayi; examines the economic and social circumstances of Argentina and Paraguay to make sense of the characters' past choices and present... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Marco Junio Vitales, a military general, is assigned to interrogate an elderly fisherman named Peter during the year A.D. 62 and hears an incredible story that shakes the very foundations of the Roman Empire.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) These stories from Colombia contain pain and love, and sometimes even humor, allowing us to see a vibrant country amidst the death and loss. We encounter townspeople overcome by fear, a man begging unsuccessfully for his life, an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) It is a biographical novel about a mexican pioneer woman aviator, doing commercial flights from the State of Washington to Alaska in the late twenties. It describes the way of life of most of the twentieth century, since 1906;... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The whispered confessions weave a tapestry of broken taboos and twisted expectations. The poignant and often hilarious tales expose the inner and outer terrain of relationships, sexuality, and the human condition." "In "Little... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The last novel by Peruvian writer Jose Maria Arguedas, set in the booming port city of Chimbote, is an expression of the human costs of rapid modernization. Tragically, the malaise of the society is reflected in the literal... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: José María Arguedas ; translated by Frances Horning Barraclough ; Julio Ortega, editor ; critical essays translated by Fred Fornoff.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the 1930s, in an isolated valley of the Pyrenees Mountains, an aging teach reconstructs a bloody and tragic event that seems destined to remain forever hidden behind a wall of collective silence. He alone can penetrate... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Twenty-eight storytellers - one for each letter of the Arabic alphabet - meet in a garden to tell the story of a poet, Eusebio, who was arrested in the early days of the Spanish civil war. The storytellers question the nature of... mostrar más