Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1945 Oaxaca, an agronomist named Demetrio Sordo regularly visits a prostitute named Mireya even as he pursues a more pure form of love in his correspondence with a girl from his hometown named Renata, until problems arise with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the long history of European prose, few works have been more influential and popular than Amadis of Gaul. Although its original author is unknown, it was likely written during the early fourteenth century, with the first known... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In the long history of European prose fiction, few works have been more influential and more popular than the romance of chivalry Amadis of Gaul. A bestseller in its day, it inspired a number of sequels and imitators,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Concieved to protest the cut-throat dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the tumultuous years of post-independence Argentina and to provide a picture of the political events during his regime. Recounts the story of Eduardo... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In a small Midwestern city, the deer population starts attacking people. Beryl, a feisty senior and ex-hippie, trains a squad of fellow retirees to hunt the animals down. At the same time, a group of protesters decides to live... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) No one knows how Porfirio entered the United States. Some say he traveled on the winds of a sandstorm, others say he walked over the hills, and still others say he flew. In the first story of this collection, Porfiro, the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Armed with fake papers, a handful of gold nuggets, and a snazzy custom-made suit, an unemployed schoolteacher with a singular passion for detective fiction sets out from small-town Bolivia on a desperate quest for an American... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) His tools are brilliant syntax, the ability to achieve highly powerful, recurrent images, a set of relationships between the plot strands that are more than a forced structure, and humor, a corrosive humor that never leads to... mostrar más
Editorial: Open Letter, literary translations from the University of Rochester
Ciudad: Rochester, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 128 págs.
ISBN: 9781948830393
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Casi, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, Viejo, a fifty-year-old man, stumbles upon... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tour de force, "Amulet" is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Héctor Belascoarán Shayne... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) An Empty House depicts the dissolution of an upper-middle-class family against a chilling background of exile, return, and discovery. The stark and moving narrative suggests the enormity of the horrors perpetrated in Chile... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Drawing on the legacy of Argentina's Dirty War, Carlos Gamerro's An Open Secret is a compelling postmodern thriller confronting guilt, complicity and the treachery of language itself.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Professor Juan Manuel Barrientos prefers footsteps to footnotes. Fighting a hangover, he manages to keep his appointment to lead a group of students on a walking lecture among the historic buildings of downtown Mexico City. When... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Gonzalo Celorio ; translated by Dick Gerdes ; foreword by Ruben Gallo.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This murder mystery follows a tragic overnight train journey in 1952 from Bolivia to Chile, presenting a moving environment at once carnivalesque and sinister. The novel explores the social tensions characteristic of Bolivian... mostrar más