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: (WorldCat) Ten long years have passed since war first broke out, and one couple still does not know the whereabouts of their children, or what their country is even fighting for. They follow orders and their lives go by simply, routinely,... 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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A mediocre man struggles in the land of the successful. A celebrity who falls in disgrace finally finds "escape" from his torments. The obsessive search of a man for his lost shadow. A couple of brothers hunt for an ancient... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the manner of fabled storytellers, Ponte creates a vivid picture of contemporary Cuba -- its real and imagined place in the world -- through stories told by a foreign exchange physics student, urban planners who discover an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The unimaginable has already begun.Tales from the Tortilla Curtain: There are projects under way even today that may result in a great wall between the United States and Mexico. In this day and age of fear and suspicion, we can... mostrar más