Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Barcelona, 1945: just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Three old members of Chile's Socialist Liberation Army have been summoned by the anarchist known as The Shadow to carry out one last revolutionary mission. The Shadow disappears before he can meet with them, though, and now one... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Laura Rivera can't believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in her own living room! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger or who might have masterminded the murder, but Laura - an upper-... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Horacio Castellanos Moya ; translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of... mostrar más
Editorial: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2020
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 508 págs.
ISBN: 9781984898593
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Already a major bestseller in Spain and Latin America, the first installment of the sensational Trilogy of the White City introduces Inspector Unai López de Ayala and follows his hunt for a terrifying serial killer. Young... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale based on the life of the reclusive classic author follows her precarious relationship with her parents, her hidden passions and aspirations, her secret views on religion and love, and her interactions with the men in her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A wealthy, elegant, educated man returns to the seaside Argentinean city of Santa Fe and befriends a newcomer to the area and the two men's lives take drastically different paths that lead them both back to the same point.
Más información: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When figure skater Nuria Marti is dropped from the Olympic team, a civil servant secretly uses public funds to build her a skating rink in the ruins of a seaside mansion, but Nuria has affairs and soon the rink becomes a crime... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The illegitimate son of a wealthy Mexico City businessman and a poor, but intelligent, peasant woman, Lorenzo is introduced to science (pasteurization and the wonders of flight) by his mother, beginning his lifelong passion. This... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A retelling of a fantastical true story: two young men seduce Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jiménez with the words of an imaginary woman and inspire one of his greatest love poems. Jose Galvez and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at... mostrar más
Editorial: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Ciudad: New York
Año de publicación: 2013
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 270 págs.
ISBN: 9781594487484
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young would-be writer from Catalonia meets Vietnam veteran Rodney Falk at a Midwestern university in 1987, but it is only years later, when he is a successful novelist, that he begins to understand what Rodney reveals about... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Mexico, 1970s. Jan and Remo find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world- or sacrifice themselves to it. The city tugs... mostrar más