Resumen/Reseñas: (Provided by publisher) Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Nora García returns to a Mexican village that she has not seen in years to attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a famous pianist who has died of a heart attack.
Editorial: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 465 págs.
ISBN: 9781984898616
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Kraken's first girlfriend, Ana Belén Liaño, has been murdered as part of a ritual not seen for 2,600 years. She has been burned, hung, and then placed upside down in a Bronze Age cauldron. But she is not the only one. Pregnant... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A New York Times Notable Book. Flora Tristan, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Recounts the stories of civil rights campaigner Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin, the artist grandson who was born after her death, in a tale that follows Flora's struggles with class imbalances and her grandson's effort to escape... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Winner of the prestigious Azoriń Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale-however one reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana María Shua, a work of fiction like no other and a dark pleasure to read. Shua, an Argentinian writer widely... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Barcelona 1952. General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Is a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gomes Morales, given up at birth to be raised by her wealthy godmother, is betrayed on her sixteenth birthday when she is forced to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) María moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow always taking care of someone else. Two... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The grandson of Laura Díaz provides the story of his grandmother, a lover of great men and "a politically committed artist on whom none of the poignant paradoxes of Mexican life have been lost.
Más información: Responsibility: Carlos Fuentes ; translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters. The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the nearly deserted and ruined town of Ainielle, high in the Spanish Pyrenees, the village's sole remaining inhabitant, an elderly man on his deathbed, reminiscences about his life and summons the ghosts of his friends and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young teacher eager to change her students' lives with her books. An indigenous community with its own stories to share. And a great and dangerous serpent not to be underestimated. Set along the Amazon River, this stunningly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This study examines the work of Manuel Vazquez Montalban, a Spanish creative writer and socio-political commentator, focusing on his Carvalho series of detective novels, which span some 25 years. Bayo Bellenguer (Spanish, Dublin... mostrar más