Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Eduardo Sacheri ; translated by John Cullen.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Retired detective Benjamín Chaparro is still obsessed by the decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. As he revisits the case, he also recalls the beginning of his long, unrequited love for Irene... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of short fiction gathers everything the author was working on before his death, including a story about a North American journalist receiving a mysterious call and a woman's recounting of the loss of her virginity.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A treasury of posthumous Bolano stories.Contents: Preliminary note -- Colonia Lindavista -- The secret of evil -- The old man of the mountain -- The colonel's son -- Scholars... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1497 Milan, a Papal Inquisitor seeks to confirm, or deny, the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1497 a Dominican inquisitor is sent to Milan to supervise the final phase of the painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Never a conformist, da Vinci creates a masterpiece that raises questions that have yet to be... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A weird wonder of Argentine and modern literature, a crucial work for Julio Cortázar ("If there's one person in my country I feel close to, it's Roberto Arlt"), The Seven Madmen begins when its hapless and hopeless hero, Erdosain... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A motley group of men who meet to play dominoes in a 1922 Mexico City hotel bar witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) La sombra del Caudillo was first published in 1929 in Spain where Guzman had fled in 1923 and settled to avoid the wrath of Obregon and called for supporting Adolfo de la Huerta's candidacy for president. With this publication of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Barcelona, 1945: just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Three old members of Chile's Socialist Liberation Army have been summoned by the anarchist known as The Shadow to carry out one last revolutionary mission. The Shadow disappears before he can meet with them, though, and now one... mostrar más