Carmen Boullosa
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Language
English
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"What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and ninety-one chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam's rib, nor was she expelled for taking the apple from the serpent; the story of Abel and Cain isn't true, neither are those of the Flood and the Tower of Babel . . . In brilliant prose, Carmen...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Russia, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: in the almost-living portrait the Tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused manuscripts she wrote just before her death, one of which opens a trapdoor to a wild feminist fairytale. Across the city, Clementine, an anarchist seamstress, and Father Gapón, the charismatic leader of the proletariat,...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
Español
Description
January, 1905. St. Petersburg. Anarchists attempt to quell the mass demonstration led by Father Gapón with an attack; the beautiful Clementine places the bomb on the streetcar that crosses the frozen Neva River. Ms. Karenina's children, who carry the weight of the beautiful woman who killed herself, are going to the opera. The czar has shown interest in acquiring a portrait of Ana for his collection. Upon rooting through the cellr to find this portrait,...
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Lear, officially known as 24, lives in L'Atlàntide, a post-apocalyptic utopian society placing increasing limits on the use of language. Lear transcribes the writings of Don Hernando, a 16th century Aztec priest living in the early days of colonial Mexico City, and of Estela, a historical anthropologist and first translator of Don Hernando's work, who lives in the late 20th century Mexico City. Though separated by time and space, Lear and Estela...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
This novel takes place in a future society called Atlantis, whose government wants to wipe out all human history from the memory of the "survivors of the future". The use of language is illegal. Lear, a paleographer, clandestinely investigates a document that will transport her to colonial Mexico.
Esta propuesta literaria recoge tres manuscritos en un texto: la crónica escrita por Hernando de Rivas en el siglo XVI, donde narra en latín la verdadera...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love"--
This collection of 28 short stories, first published in 1937 and now in English translation for the first time, introduced readers to one of Argentina's most original and iconic authors. With this, her fiction debut, poet Silvina Ocampo initiated a personal, idiosyncratic exploration of the politics of...
Series
Caníbal volume 04
Publisher
On Screen Films
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
Español
Description
A romance that spans three centuries.
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of writing by Mexican journalists, historians, novelists, and artists on the immigration crisis in the United States"--
Despite the extensive coverage in the U.S. media of the southern border and Donald Trump's proposed wall, most English speakers have had little access to the multitude of perspectives from Mexico on the ongoing crisis. Boullosa and Quintero redress this imbalance with this collection of essays, translated into English...
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