Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A retelling of a fantastical true story: two young men seduce Nobel laureate Juan Ramon Jiménez with the words of an imaginary woman and inspire one of his greatest love poems. Jose Galvez and Carlos Rodriguez are poets. Or, at... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 2009, Antonio Yammara recalls his relationship years before with Ricardo Laverde, a man with a hidden past who was killed in the days when the drug trade in Colombia was at its height, and examines its effects on everyone in... mostrar más
Editorial: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Ciudad: New York
Año de publicación: 2013
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 270 págs.
ISBN: 9781594487484
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young lawyer reflects on the mid-twentieth-century uprising between Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and government forces that trapped Pablo's community in a nightmarish existence and culminated in a friend's murder.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A young would-be writer from Catalonia meets Vietnam veteran Rodney Falk at a Midwestern university in 1987, but it is only years later, when he is a successful novelist, that he begins to understand what Rodney reveals about... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Mexico, 1970s. Jan and Remo find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world- or sacrifice themselves to it. The city tugs... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Collection of twenty-three short stories of Argentinean peasants and patricians, revolutionaries and tyrants, and seductresses and fortune tellers.
Más información: Responsibility: Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.
Editorial: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2018
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 284 págs.
ISBN: 9780062660718
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the wake of the inferno unleashed over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, two stories unfold: that of Jim, an American soldier when the bomb dropped, and H, a mere schoolgirl at the time. Both victims of the bomb, the two cross... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Back cover) Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez Sanchez is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the 'Notorious Infamous' like Plato, Petrarch, Chesterton,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From the Publisher: At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man-that the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen Lane.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Using only dialogue as its narrative technique, Luis Zapata recounts the story of his protagonist Santiago, a middle-aged businessman hopelessly in love with Arturo, a 19-year-old teenager, who is the son of Sarita, his best... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Inspector Hector Salgado is known for his violent moments. He has a murky emotional past and a runaway wife. So he is moved off his current case to investigate the story behind a young boys fall to his death from a balcony in one... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) When the death of a vulnerable young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo causes the normally calm Police Inspector Hector Salgado to beat someone up, he is moved off the project and sent instead to investigate a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Inspector Hector Salgado is a transplanted Argentine living in Barcelona. While working on a human trafficking case, Salgado's violent temper got the best of him and he beat a suspect within an inch of his life. Ordered on... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Inspector Hector Salgado is known for his violent moments. He has a murky emotional past and a runaway wife. So he is moved off his current case to investigate the story behind a young boy's fall to his death from a balcony in... mostrar más