Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The legendary title novella from one of Mexico's most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This lost masterwork, collected with his previously untranslated stories, marks a landmark event in world literature. Juan Rulfo (1917-1986), Mexico's most important and influential author of the twentieth century, received numerous awards in his lifetime, including the esteemed Cervantes...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
Description
"In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on cosmopolitanism, the works of Rulfo hold a unique position. These stories of a rural people caught in the play of natural forces are not simply an interior examination of the phenomena of their world; they are written for the larger purpose of showing the actions of humans in broad terms of reality."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Identical twin spinsters, Gloria and Constitución Gamal, enjoy their successful tailoring business in rural Mexico and take particular thrills in confusing people. When a new suitor arrives, one sister decides she wants all the benefits of true romance, and the competition between them boils.
Author
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
"Todo parecía posible en México a finales de los años cuarenta, recuerda Carlos, el narrador y protagonista de esta novela ... Ninguna experiencia, sin embargo, fue tan intensa para el niño que estaba a punto de convertirse en adolescente como el enamoramiento puro y arrebatado que vivió en cuanto conoció a la madre de su amigo Jim. La historia de esa iniciación amorosa, de su deseo imposible e incurable, que ahora reconstruye Carlos, es...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1503
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"This landmark novella -one of the central texts of Mexican literature, is eerily relevant to our current dark times- offers a child's-eye view of a society beset by dictators, disease, and natural disasters, set in 'the year of polio, foot-and- mouth disease, floods.' A middle-class boy grows up in a world of children aping adults (mock wars at recess pit Arabs against Jews), where a child's left to ponder "how many evils and catastrophes we have...
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
A drunken confession. Years dissolve in a blur of sex, drugs, and violence. With echoes of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Héctor Aguilar Camín's Day In, Day Out explores the lives of two darkly alluring sisters and the men pulled into their orbit. while attending the funeral of an old acquaintance, dissolute writer Serrano runs into a former rival, a doctor of criminology known simply as el Pato. The encounter throws Serrano back to the erotically...
9) Paradais
Author
Publisher
A New Directions Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor-an attractive married woman and mother-while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request