Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A modern-day picaresque novel by one of Mexico's best The Brothers Corona is a novel that unfolds like a Sam Shepard story made into a Wim Wenders road movie. It is the first Mexican detective novel that reflects rural Mexican... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This masterful and ironic detective novel concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens-Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth-all combining to make a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho travels from Barcelona to Buenos Aires to search for his cousin who disappeared in the Argentine army's Dirty War, but soon finds that he is risking his own life by delving into the traumas of Argentina's history.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) El Llano en llamas is considered a classic of Mexican literature. The collection of short stories takes place in rural Jalisco where Mexicans struggle to survive after the Mexican Revolution. Juan Rulfo is one of the most... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Odaer likes to think of different ways to mix species of animals and plants in his experiments. One day he combines flowers with birds to create a butterfly.
Más información: Responsibility: [witten by] Gioconda Belli ; [illustrated by] Wolf Erlbruch ; translated from the Spanish by Charles Castaldi.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When Faoro the clockmaker adopts a baby caiman, he has no idea that someday their story will travel far and wide. But the town of San Fernando de Apure would never forget this kind young man and his adoring alligator, who played... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) For fifty years Andres Yasin has held a grudge against J.T. Bunker for an alleged affair with Andres' mother. Will the truth finally come out after all these years?
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The novel presents a stunning series of flashes scenes, moods, dreams, and weather as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Originally published in Perú in 1928 to great acclaim, The Cardboard House was clearly destined to become a classic. Written during Martín Adán's prodigious adolescence in Barranco —a peaceful sea resort in the coast of Lima—,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Struggling to fit into the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, reluctantly remain in the employ of the crown for their unique services but find their prospects... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Celestina is considered by scholars to be the first European novel. Written in fifteenth-century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, and drawing of character. The novel's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The Cells of Terror consists of twenty-four stories, all very short, scientifically formulated, about the cells that are the origin of terror--which is to say, about a few of the key situations that sow in the hearts of human... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) This book is a collection of stories that will echo in the hearts of all who are familiar with this kind of life, but perhaps can – even more significantly-- create the illusion of an echo even in those people, who perhaps... mostrar más
Editorial: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 162 págs.
ISBN: 9780063143159
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published. The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's inimitable... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original... mostrar más
Editorial: Open Letter, literary translations from the University of Rochester
Ciudad: Rochester, NY
Año de publicación: 2020
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 138 págs.
ISBN: 9781948830256
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Perfectly normal men and women head to their desks every day in a city laid to waste by guerrilla incursions, menaced by hordes of starving people, murderous children and cloned dogs, patrolled by armed helicopters, and plagued... mostrar más