Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When Marta, the woman with whom he was about to begin an affair, suddenly dies in his arms, Víctor first considers walking away but is unable to resist delving into Marta's dark secrets.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) The 1889 novella Torquemada at the Stake focuses on a character who had appeared in previous works by Galdós (and who would reappear in three subsequent novels). Named after the infamous Grand Inquisitor of the fifteenth... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories out over at least seven coffees and everyone knows he is the best storyteller in town.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Searching for an inn, the enigmatic traveler Hans stops in a small city on the border between Saxony and Prussia. The next morning, Hans meets an old organ-grinder in the market square and immediately finds himself enmeshed in an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In post-Napoleonic Germany, a traveller on his way to Dessau stops off for a night in the mysterious city of Wandernburg. He intends to move on the following day, but the town begins to ensnare him with its strange, shifting... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend's debts, kindly... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Pedru Juan paints in his crumbling Havana apartment, beset by a growing sense of melancholy as he observes the lives of the hustlers, hipsters, and hookers in the city below. He is pursued by Gloria, a proud and sophisticated... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The novel is three stories in one: the story of Juan Capistrán, an orphan destined to live a quixotic life in search of adventure and heroism; the life of Froylán Gómez, a man who will forever be in love with the fantasy of a... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: David Toscano ; translated from the Spanish by Patricia J. Duncan.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) After a hurricane smashes through the Mexican town of Tula, the narrator's friend is missing--seemingly carried off by the storm--but when his car turns up, filled with his papers, the disappeared man's wife is convinced that... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel "Turing" Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Spanish journalist and art historian Jaime Azcárate has always been a magnet for trouble. So when the authorities call on him to help investigate a museum heist while he’s enjoying a rare vacation, he is more annoyed than... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Two Bodies is a text that obliquely intersects Chilean national history and the personal history of Esteban, stories that circle graves and bodies and that end up running into each other at a red letter. Fragments of events in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for Garca Mrquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos's I, the Supreme, Tyrant Banderas is a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Seven short stories explore the hard lives of women of different ages on both sides of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Considered the first novel of Mexican immigration depicting the diverse experiences of Mexican immigrants.With an introduction by John Pluecker.
Editorial: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2023
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 183 págs.
ISBN: 9780063256682
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In USMAÍL, Pedro Juan Soto gives us a masterful description of life on the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques during the 1930s, 40s and 50s as seen through the eyes of the islanders themselves. The story follows the life of a... mostrar más