Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian who looks... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) River of Sorrows is set in the sixteenth century Argentina of the earliest Spanish settlements, when Juan de Garay came down the Parana River from Asuncion, Paraguay, to found the settlement of Santa Fe in 1573. After he left... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Libertad Demitrópulos ; translated by Mary G. Berg.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Valencia native Emma isn’t looking for love when her best pals take her out on the town for her thirty-second birthday. But after just enough cocktails at their favorite bar, the trio encounters John Davies, a British movie... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco Ramos' delicately balanced novel, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellin. Her very name-evoking the rosary and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of death with that of love." So begins Rosario Tijeras, Jorge Franco's eponymous novel of a violent, violated woman on the run in 1980s... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A followup to his first novel, The Night (winner of the Rive Gauche à Paris Prize for foreign books in 2016), this collection of short stories by Venezuelan literary star Rodrigo Blanco Calderón features a taxidermist painter, a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) SALT follows a road trip that uncovers a family's past and who they are in the present.Ever since a childhood accident, Ema has doubted her bond with her mother, equally troubled and fascinated by her. Years later, now with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Puerto Rico is often portrayed as sandy beaches, casinos, luxury hotels, relaxation, and never-ending pleasure--a place that satisfies all senses and appetites. Yet the city of San Juan is much more than that. The capital of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Petra Leyva has begun to write a novel about the Sanctuary Movement when she hears that her widowed, womanizing father has set fire to his house in a drunken rage. Overwhelmed by family memories, Petra begins a journey of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Sangama: A Story of the Amazon Jungle tells the story of a young man, Abel Barcas, entering the Peruvian Amazon in the early twentieth century to make his fortune in the then booming trade in natural rubber. He meets an older... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) First published in 1923, just before César Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems with short stories in a collection that exhibits all the exuberance of the author's early experimentalism. A follow-up to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that gradually turns to obsession. Though Sonia needs to create distance when Knut becomes too absorbing, she also yearns for a less... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Juan José Saer's Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine-year-old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Jorge Volpi's international bestseller Season of Ash puts a human face on the earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century: the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Soviet communism and the rise of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he will become the first indigenous head of state in the postcolonial Americas, but now he is as anonymous... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This is the story of a man who lived inAlabama, New York, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. A story about friendships and family,relationships, hopes and disappointments. You willfind a lot of humor and some sadness,all told with... mostrar más