Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Novel based on a series of true events centering on the scandalous activities of Colonel Juan Yáñez, associate of Santa Ana, a powerful and influential figure in Mexico (called Relumbrón, who makes his appearance in the second... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A desperate man murders his close friend in a dingy Barcelona bar. The reason for his attack is gradually revealed as he is protected and sought by his brother and the bartender, who, to save him, blame the killing on an innocent... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Facing homelessness after the death of her master, Cuban former slave Caridad becomes a freedom fighter at the side of rebellious gypsy Milagros Carmona, with whom she confronts increasingly hostile elements in mid-eighteenth-... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Battle of Tomochic: Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant is the fictional account of the October 1892 military campaign mounted by the Mexican Army that culminated in the massacre of the small but courageous village of Tomochic,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A best seller in Europe, Pablo Tusset's wickedly funny debut novel follows the hilarious, boozy, libidinous, and occasionally dangerous travails of Pablo Baloo Miralles, the wholeheartedly dissolute thirty-year-old black sheep... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Internationally bestselling author Julia Navarro riveted readers around the world with her provocative novel The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud . Now she goes even further, in this electrifying thriller about a biblical discovery... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) Among rumors of Iraq's imminent invasion, time is running out for Clara and her husband Ahmed who have put together a ragtag team of renegade archaeologists and inexperienced students to excavate the Bible of Clay from deep... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Julia Navarro ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When archaeologist Clara Tannenberg announces the discovery of clay tablets from the time of Abraham recounting stories from Genesis, she unleashes a series of plots involving antiquities smugglers, the Iraq War, and her ruthless... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) There are riders willing to die just to win a single leg of the Tour, careening downhill at a suicidal ninety kilometers per hour; now I know there are also riders ready to kill for it. Marc, a French-Colombian professional... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from twenty years... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Martín Solares ; translation by Aura Estrada and John Pluecker.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A portrait of an era and of protagonists of the University [of Havana] environment. It places the reader in close contact with the Havana of the 1960s and today, a Havana full of nuances and ruptures. The account presents a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood. Born with an abnormality in her eye and a family intent on fixing it, she occupies a world without the time and space for innocence. The narrator... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood--in which she was born... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Collection of forty-two short stories and vignettes that together paint a portrait of the Mora Valley, the real-life northern New Mexico setting for a group of small nuevomexicano villages. The author partially based his text on... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) In his search for truth, a young Jesuit joins a group that has for centuries been trying to decipher the secrets of a mysterious book known as the Voynich Manuscript. When a key to unlocking it is discovered in the church... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Enrique Joven ; translated from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In his search for truth, a young Jesuit joins a group that has for centuries been trying to decipher the secrets of a mysterious book known as the Voynich Manuscript. When a key to unlocking it is discovered in the church where... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Claudio Romo is a revelation. Simply the most exciting discovery to come out of Chile since Roberto Bolaño, Alejandro Zambra or Lina Meruane. Though one finds hints of Italo Calvino and a nod to Jules Verne, he deftly combines... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An up-and-coming young writer who has little in common with Kloster, a literary giant whose disturbing crime novels dominate the bestseller lists. However, they have both, at one time, employed the secretarial services of the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Guillermo Martínez ; translated from Spanish by Sonia Soto.