Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother, brothers,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Skin of the Sky is the story of the life of Lorenzo de Tena, a brilliant and troubled astronomer. Born in the 1930s, the illegitimate son of a businessman and a peasant woman, Lorenzo lives happily with his mother,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The illegitimate son of a wealthy Mexico City businessman and a poor, but intelligent, peasant woman, Lorenzo is introduced to science (pasteurization and the wonders of flight) by his mother, beginning his lifelong passion. This... mostrar más
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 this Nicaraguan noir, Inspector Dolores Morales and Deputy Inspector Bert Dixon -- former Sandinista guerilla fighters now attached to the Narcotics Unit of the National Police -- investigate the disappearance of a young woman... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, popularly known as José Rizal; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. An... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From Alejandro Jodorowsky - legendary director of The Holy Mountain, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, and author of Where the Bird Sings Best - comes another autobiographical tour-de-force: a mythopoetic... 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: (WorldCat) Set in Mexico in the 1970s, the novel charts the literary and romantic escapades of two Chilean aspiring writers, employing a range of genres, from epistolary novel to science fiction to satire.
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) An intoxicating collection of short fiction by one of the most beloved writers of our time. Eva Luna is a young woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and love. Lying in bed with her European lover, refugee and... 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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A riveting family drama set on the lush and dangerous Colombian coast. By one of Colombia's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, The Storm is an atmospheric, gripping portrait of the tensions that devastate one family. Twins... mostrar más
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