Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a short story by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1955 in the journal Casa de las Américas. The story is a magical-realist allegory that follows the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A Week in October is a thriller for those who usually prefer a good love story. Clara Griffin, the beautiful wife of a successful Chilean architect, courageously confronts a life-threatening illness while recording her thoughts... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of twenty-one short stories representing some of the finest work by today's Latin American writers.Contents: Flight / Mayra Santos-Febres ; Nothing to do... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her roommate Susana,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A satirical look at the origins of power, A Zero-Sum Game uses the highly-charged election for the presidency of a residents' committee and the influence of a powerful stranger to both expose those in power and sympathize with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Abrupt Mutations leads the reader on a humorous, meandering tour of 1960s Megalopolis, at the heart of which is a hotly anticipated gathering of the city's culturati at the home of O Jango, a Brazilian billionaire and aesthete... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When the mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found by the side of a dusty road, detective Edgar "Lefty" Mendieta has personal reasons for bringing the culprit to justice. Mayra had no shortage of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A respected Mexican businessman finds his idyllic life crumbling in the face of his wife's infidelity with a corrupt director of national security, his brother-in-law's worship of a child preacher, and his mistress' break with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A passionate novel that unite the activation of DNA, the mystery of sexual alchemy, the Atlantis, Earth's ascent as forecasted by the 2010 Mayan prophesy, cover-up conspiracies between the secret government and the Catholic... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men into her "services". Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity, the luscious... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Daniel Chavarría ; translation by Carlos Lopez.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Inspired by real events, Affections is the story of the eccentric, fascinating Ertl clan, headed by the egocentric and extraordinary Hans, once the cameraman for the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. Shortly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This anthology is the first of its kind on Puerto Rican literature. The comprehensive introduction traces the history of the representation of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the short story, paying special attention to circumstances... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A coming of age story that holds a mirror up to the modern history of Guatemala - a funhouse mirror of richly inventive and farcical black comedy which provides a better description of life in that country than any history book... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Le Monde Claudio's apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and... mostrar más