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Ursula Lopez novels volume 1
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Women in Translation (2021)
Translated Books from Latin and South America
Women in Translation (2021)
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"The story is set in Uruguay, it starts in a Montevideo prison where Diego waits for his lawyer, the slick Dr Antinucci, always raybanned, chain-smoking, never frisked by the prison guards. Diego, betrayed by his partner in crime, was arrested for kidnapping a businessman. But charges will not be pressed. The businessman and his wife have described Diego as duped by his partner, certainly no master criminal, so he will be let out. But Antonucci has...
2) La tregua
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Español
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Mario Benedetti es una de las grandes figuras de la literatura en lengua hispana. La Tregua es una de sus obras más señeras. Brillante narrador y poeta, el autor dibuja con trazos finos la figura de un hombre inmerso en su ciudad y su vida, guiando al lector en un proceso de identificación tan intenso que la vida del protagonista se pega en la piel y la sensibilidad. Una novela que constituye una verdadera obra maestra, en la que el clima, los
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Ursula Lopez novels volume 2
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The attempted robbery of an armoured car in the back streets of Montevideo is a miserable failure. But it turns out [to] be a lucky break for the intrepid Ursula Lopez who manages to snatch all the loot, more hindered than helped by her faint-hearted and reluctant companion Diego. Only now, the wannabe robbers are hot on her heels. As are the police. And Ursula's sister. But the irresistible Ursula turns out to be enormously talented when it comes...
6) The shooters
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Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Still in Argentina tying up loose ends from his investigation into the UN oil-for-food scandal, Charley Castillo is startled when a young man is marched into his office at gunpoint, caught trying to sneak through the fence. It turns out he's an American officer, a lieutenant assigned to the embassy in Paraguay. A key agent for the DEA has disappeared while trying to interdict drugs and very little is being done about it, for phony diplomatic reasons....
8) Cantoras
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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In 1977 Uruguay, a military government crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In this environment, where the everyday rights of people are under attack, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression to be punished. And yet Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus," Paz, and Malena-five cantoras, women who "sing"-somehow, miraculously, find one another. Together, they discover an isolated, nearly uninhabited cape, Cabo Polonio, which they claim as their...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane. Far away, his nine-year-old daughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa and mother--Santiago's beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela--struggle to adjust to a life in exile"--
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"En el Uruguay de 1977, el gobierno militar oprime a los disidentes con una fuerza brutal. En este ambiente opresivo donde los derechos personales están suspendidos, la homosexualidad es una transgresión peligrosa que debe ser castigada. Aun así, Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus", Paz, y Malena--cinco cantoras--se encuentran milagrosamente en Cabo Polonio, un lugar aislado que reclaman como su santuario secreto. Y este despertar se contrapone al...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Months after his predecessor and lover is hit and killed by a car while reading a volume of Dickinson poetry, a Cambridge professor receives a copy of a Conrad novel with a mysterious dedication and travels to Buenos Aires and Uruguay in search of its sender.
12) The naked woman
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Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A woman's feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay
13) The rooftop
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Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"'The world is this house', says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the world - yes, that one outside their house walls - which seems to threaten them more and more. Clara entrenches herself with her father and her daughter Flor in a dark apartment that inevitably crumbles on them. The roof becomes their last recess of freedom. A caged bird is the only witness of Clara's fear and resistance against those she thinks are trying...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. An advance due to him on his upcoming novel, the small fortune might mean the solution to his problems, most importantly the tension he has with his wife. While she spends her days at work and her nights out on the town-with a lover, perhaps, he doesn't know for sure-Lucas is stuck at home all day...
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Amengual takes her characters, women and men whose lives are marked by the monotony of a forgotten love, and places them in front of a mirror. Then, with the deepest compassion, she helps them face the unavoidable conclusion of certain bonds, sustained only through routine and convenience, to present the possibility of a new beginning. This is a story of the choices made to fill the void and the need to hope.
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