Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Slippery figures in anomalous situations – ghosts, spies, bodyguards, criminals– haunt these stories by Javier Marías: the characters come bearing their strange and special secrets, and never leave our minds. In one story, a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) One by one, men's bodies are washing up on the shore of the river that passes through town, where they are claimed by the local women as their missing husbands and fathers, even though the faces of the dead men are... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Journalist Zoé comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma. Paloma is dead. But before... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: () Ana María Shua's microfictions reveal oneiric universes, multiform realties, secret worlds with the unlikely coherence of the absurd, the amorphous logic of the imagination. They are characterized by the most unique form of concise... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño's last, unfinished novel.The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano―an exiled Chilean university professor and widower―... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Follows Amalfitano, exiled Chilean university professor and widower with a teenage daughter, as his political disillusionment and love of poetry lead to the scandal that will force him to flee from Barcelona and take him to Santa... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The number-one international bestseller, "Women With Big Eyes" is Mexican novelist Angeles Mastretta's most wedely read work, at last translated into English. Meet the outrageous Aunt Leonor, who deines herself the forbidden... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) A number-one international bestseller, Women with Big Eyes is Mexican novelist Ángeles Mastretta's most widely read work, now available for the first time in an English translation. Each of the stories in this volume reveals a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) The story of a son trying to make his father proud-- by becoming an international criminal. Set in contemporary Barcelona and made up of multiple storylines, including a fictional manuscript by Stephen King.
Más información: Responsibility: Javier Calvo ; translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Yankee Invasion centers on one of the most traumatic periods of Mexican history: the 1847 invasion of Mexico City by American armed forces and the ultimate loss of almost half its territory to the United States. Abelardo, who... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Yawar Fiesta describes the social relations between Indians, mestizos, and whites in the Peruvian highland town of Puquio in the early twentieth century. Each group's reaction to the national government's attempt to suppress... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Yocandra, the first-person narrator, was born (like Valdés herself) in Havana in 1959. Now a dispirited, outspoken woman living in Cuba, narrator writes of a reality of 'nothing' that contrasts poignantly with that of a gusana... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Now back in print, the debut novel that made Zoé Valdés an international literary sensation, the bold, bawdy story of a failed revolution and its discontents.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Jacques Deza, hired by a shady branch of the MI6, returns to Madrid to both to spy on and to protect his own family.--From publisher's description.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as a "brilliant dark novel" (Scotland on Sunday), the book now takes a wild... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Part spy novel, part romance, part Henry James, Your Face Tomorrow is a wholly remarkable display of the immense gifts of Javier Marias. With Fever and Spear, volume one of his unfolding novel Your Face Tomorrow, he returns us to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentinean and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, Zama takes place in the last... mostrar más