Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) In these vignettes set in the fictional county of Belken along the Texas-Mexico border in the early to mid-twentieth century, Rolando Hinojosa sketches a landscape of Mexican Texans and Anglo Texans living side... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Rojas re-creates the nineteenth-century corridors of power and portrays the relationship between Goya and King Fernando VII, a despot bent on establishing a cruel regime after Spain's War of Independence. Goya obliges the king's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by the infamous 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa finds the dying Marquis de Valfierno divulging to an American journalist the truth about his secret identity as a working-class Argentine youth who drew on his artistic... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) This tautly written story uncovers the personal histories of three middle-aged revolutionaries as they plan to kill a U.S. general. Andreu's cool treatment of their political objectives does not obscure his compassionate... mostrar más
Editorial: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2017
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 534 págs.
ISBN: 9781501124532
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas returns with The Vineyard, a magnificent story of ambition, heartbreak, and desire set in the 1860s Mexico, Cuba, and Spain--perfect for fans of Kate Morton and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Mauro Larrea’s fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Drowning in debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money on daring ploy that wins him a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money in a daring play that wins him an... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Provided by publisher) Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Nora García returns to a Mexican village that she has not seen in years to attend the funeral of her ex-husband, a famous pianist who has died of a heart attack.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "I don't wish to frighten you", reads the anonymous note introverted and bullied eight-year-old Leo Cruz finds in his backpack. All the sender asks is that he avoid a certain spot on a certain day, or he'll die. Leo has reason to... mostrar más
Editorial: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de páginas: 465 págs.
ISBN: 9781984898616
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Kraken's first girlfriend, Ana Belén Liaño, has been murdered as part of a ritual not seen for 2,600 years. She has been burned, hung, and then placed upside down in a Bronze Age cauldron. But she is not the only one. Pregnant... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In the mid-1990s, Emilio Renzi leaves his unstable life in Argentina to take a visiting position at a prestigious university in New Jersey. Settling in for a semester of academic quietude, he is unexpectedly swept up in a secret... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A New York Times Notable Book. Flora Tristan, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Recounts the stories of civil rights campaigner Flora Tristan and Paul Gauguin, the artist grandson who was born after her death, in a tale that follows Flora's struggles with class imbalances and her grandson's effort to escape... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Winner of the prestigious Azoriń Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zoé Valdés--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale-however one reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana María Shua, a work of fiction like no other and a dark pleasure to read. Shua, an Argentinian writer widely... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Barcelona 1952. General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Is a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gomes Morales, given up at birth to be raised by her wealthy godmother, is betrayed on her sixteenth birthday when she is forced to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another... mostrar más