Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An extremely slender, sad tale by Bellatin recounts a gay man's reflections on the waning days of sexual excess and the specter of death wrought by AIDS, though here AIDS is a mysterious, nameless plague. Formerly a stylist in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Belated Declaration of Love to Séraphine Louis brings together a panoramic survey of Venezuelan narrative, the original Spanish text of eight short stories by the late writer, with full English translation, and a focused... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This bilingual anthology - including sixteen of Mexico's finest writers born after 1945 - offers a glimpse of the rich tapestry of Mexican fiction. From small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery, this is a major event in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. Centering around a boy named Toto, privy to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Between Two Silences / Entre Dos Silencios is a book of remarkable short stories by the great Dominican writer Hilma Contreras. These short stories (some very short) are often mysterious and quirky, with a shimmer of heat and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Beyond the Island recreates the Galapagos Islands as a paradise poised between destruction and redemption, its inhabitants as varied as an Elizabethan pirate, an expert on the prickly pear, and a baker infatuated with a... mostrar más
Editorial: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2021
ISBN: 9781419744082
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A little girl and her abuela tend to an injured bird they find in the snow, allowing it to fly around the living room until it is ready to be released.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The journalist named no names. He claimed nothing false. He was not a radical, not a communist, less interested in politics than in writing itself. Nevertheless, one sentence, "The real cause of this crisis is corruption at... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Private detective Sunny Pascal is hired to babysit the cast of a movie filming in Puerto Vallarta, but when someone is shot down by a gun belonging to one of the cast members, he has to keep them out of jail while he solves the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) New York City. Three A.M. The present. A man emerges from a building, a revolver in his pocket. Upstairs, in her apartment, alone in her bed, lies a woman - an actress the man met for the first time earlier that evening. She... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Luisa Valenzuela ; translation by Toby Talbot.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Set in the bullfighting world of Valencia, Spain, the story follows the rise and fall of Juan Gallardo, a talented but impoverished young man who becomes a famous matador. Gallardo's success brings him wealth, fame, and the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In a collection of stories that explore life's mystery, a tiger stalks a vacation home and a man discovers that in the mystery he is reading, he is the victim.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The tale of a young writer who falls for a woman who disappears while he is pretending to edit a book that doesn't exist, it brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, and life. And with a beguiling form that... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Two Chilean university students, Emilia and Julio, become inseparable lovers until their relationship changes and Emilia mysteriously disappears from Chile.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Boxwood might perhaps be best described as a kind of whirlwind: a vortex of marvelous writing about folklore, traditions, superstitions, cooking, nautical disasters on the Coast of Death (ships from afar spilling cargoes of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with... mostrar más