Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) First published in Spain in 1999, this adventure set in 19th-century New Mexico uses elements of the ancient Near Eastern myth of Gilgamesh to tell a violent tale of war and revenge, treasure hunting and witchcraft. Gil Gomez,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A nameless narrator and his friend Alberto move through a constantly morphing continuum of dream-like situations while discussing philosophy, literature, and war. The impossible question of an enormous student in a lecture hall... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A collection of literary and meta-fictional short stories.Contents: Introduction. Dystopia is now. Part 1. Of robots and other perversions. When a robot decides to die... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Set against the background of the Mexican-American border, this story is the saga of Aida, a Tarahumara Indian who meets, falls in love, and waits fifty years for the American soldier who promised to return. Miguel Santana... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Seventeen stories gallop, frolic, and slither across the pages of this collection of stories by Mexican author Brianda Domecq. A pet canary is caught between her nesting instinct and her desire for solitude. A jaguar serves as... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When I Was Mortal collects a dozen stories by Javier Marias, "justly considered the most talented Spanish author alive" (Il Messaggero). Victims of mistaken identity, amateur sleuths, professional liars, eavesdroppers, assassins... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When I Was Mortal. Plots turn on curious exigencies--a woman... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The journey of two young siblings crossing from Mexico to the U.S. on their own is interweaved with the story of the grandmother who raised them becoming a magical folk healer.
Editorial: Hasell Street Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
Nº de páginas: 375 págs.
ISBN: 9781014477910
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Story of contemporary, tumultuous Mexico City, its oppressed workers, its displaced aristocrats, its decadent international set, and its heritage of rebellion.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Where the Air is Clear, Carlos Fuentes's first novel, opens with a metaphorical description of Mexico City and the challenges facing its inhabitants and quickly becomes an unsparing portrayal of the upper class. Departing from... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this wildly imaginative, powerfully moving, "psychomagical" autobiography-cum-novel, Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of how his Ukrainian Jewish grandfather, his fiery wife, Teresa, and their four children moved to Chile... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In seaside Bosque de Mar, Argentina, guests at the Hotel Central are struck by double misfortun--the mysterious death of one of their party, and an investigation headed by the physician, writer and insufferable busybody, Dr.... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents a collection of short stories, including "While the women are sleeping," in which a man lying on the beach spectulates on the lives of another pair of beach goers, and "The Resignation Letter of Señor de Santiesteban,"... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
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: (WorldCat) A Caribbean zombie--smart, gentlemanly, financially independent, and a top executive at an important pharmaceutical company--becomes obsessed with finding the formula that would reverse his condition and allow him to become "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