Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Til She Go No More, Beatriz García Huidobro simultaneously maps the coordinates of the intimate story of a female teenager and the broader historical and socioeconomic reality of Chile in the early 70’s. The story is narrated... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost, where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought--and of love--can both inspire and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In USMAÍL, Pedro Juan Soto gives us a masterful description of life on the small Puerto Rican Island of Vieques during the 1930s, 40s and 50s as seen through the eyes of the islanders themselves. The story follows the life of a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramon y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Santiago Ramón y Cajal ; translated from the Spanish by Laura Otis.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Stories about the bright and dark side of scientific curiosity from a world-famous scientist. Fearing they would compromise his scientific career, neurobiologist Ramón y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories... 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 became one of the... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Martín Caparrós ; translated by Jasper Reid.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Gathered for the first time in English, and spanning his entire career], "Vampire in Love offers a selection of the Spanish master Enrique Vila-Matas's finest short stories. An effeminate, hunchbacked barber on the verge of death... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Varamo concerns a day in the life of a hapless government employee. After being paid by the ministry in counterfeit money, our unfortunate bureaucrat, Varamo, wanders around all night, then sits down and writes the most... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In six subtly connected stories, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from different strata of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After centuries of war and blood shortages in Eastern Europe, an undead Vlad the Impaler moves to Mexico and offers eternal life to the only child of Yves and Asunción Navarro in exchange for their legal and real estate services.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) As calligrapher for the great Voltaire, Dalessius becomes witness to many wonders-- and finds himself in the middle of a secret battle between the malevolent remnants of the all-but-dead Dark Ages and the progressive elements of... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Pablo de Santis ; translated by Lisa Carter.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Marias's second novel was written in the early '70s when he was 21, and it has all of the stylistic grace and wry invention that has put Maras on the Nobel shortlist. An unnamed narrator ruminates on the intentions of a man (... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Voyager begins with Nona Fernández accompanying her elderly mother to the doctor to seek an explanation for her frequent falls. As the author stares at the image of her mother's brain scan, it occurs to her that the electrical... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Gerta Pohorylle meets Andre Friedmann in Paris in 1935 and is drawn to his fierce dedication to justice, journalism, and the art of photography. Assuming new names, [they] travel together to Spain, Europe's most harrowing war... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Water Log is a love story and a travel narrative always in perfect tension between departure and arrival. It is a novel that begins anew with every story, and with the same sense of agility and dare of his character, it always... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Hugo Clemente ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Kahn.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Way Far Away is the Colombian master Evelio Rosero's ninth novel and has been billed by his Spanish publisher as "one of the most important Colombian works of fiction written in the past two decades. In search of his missing... mostrar más