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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
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"La novela cuenta la historia paralela de dos personajes: el ordenado y entrañable Felícito Yanaqué, un pequeño empresario de Piura que es extorsionado, e Ismael Carrera, un exitoso hombre de negocios, dueño de una aseguradora en Lima, quien urde una sorpresiva venganza contra sus dos hijos holgazanes que quisieron verlo muerto. Viejos conocidos del mundo vargallosiano aparecen en estas páginas: el sargento Lituma y los inconquistables, don...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After her fiance calls off their marriage a week before the wedding, heartbroken Christine Hollister reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend Jessica to Peru to do volunteer work in an orphanage, where she meets American doctor Paul Cook.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. . When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"In this novel, simultaneous plot lines ranging from an investigation by Corporal Lituma of a mysterious disappearance, to his deputy's love affair with a prostitute, to an Andean community terrorized by Shining Path guerrillas, and the alternating first- and third-person narrators all obscure coherence. Grossman's lazy translation needlessly retains large doses of original Spanish lexicon. An introduction, maps, and a translator's note are badly...
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Publisher
Santillana USA
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
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El destino de Bobby parece estar jodido desde que se volvió cojo. Sus padres se avergüenzan de él y lo envían a estudiar fuera. En el barco es abusado por la tripulación. Humillado, se propone nunca más ser la víctima y pasar a ser el victimario. Apasionado de las motos y las armas de fuego, incapaz de ser leal o de amar, vuelve a Lima dispuesto a vengar su suerte contrariada. El loco Pancho es bruto, feo, sucio y tartamudo. Además, está...
10) Red April
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian society during the Fujimori regime.
11) Yo amo a mi mami
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
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"Jimmy vive en las afueras de Lima, estudia en un colegio inglés y sueña con ir a Disney. Como el de todo niño, su mundo está lleno de héroes, algunos domésticos y familiares; otros, radiales, televisivos, futboleros; ninguno, sin embargo, se parece a su padre, un exitoso hombre de negocios eternamente malhumorado. Su madre, mujer fina y devota, en cambio, es el centro de sus ilusiones. De su mano, Jimmy, sensible, tierno, divertido, descubre...
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English
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When twenty-five-year-old Heather Russo breaks up with her boyfriend-again-she can't figure out if she's to blame or he is. Either way, she's miserable, and working at home via Zoom meetings is only making it worse. What's more, all the women in her family are struggling. Mom Sandy is convinced she's wasted her life and is nursing a giant grudge against Heather's father, whom she's now divorcing. Grandmother Bonnie is reeling with the grief of losing...
14) Cinco esquinas
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Español
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"La idea de esta novela comenzó con una imagen de dos señoras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situación erótica. Luego se fue convirtiendo en una historia policial, casi un thriller, y el thriller se fue transformando en una especie de mural de la sociedad peruana en los últimos meses o semanas de la dictadura de Fujimori y Montesinos. Me gustó la idea de que la historia se llamase Cinco esquinas...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest--until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison...
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Katzuo is at sea after being forced out of his job as a literature professor without warning. He retreats into fl�anerie, musing with imaginary interlocuters, roaming the streets, and reciting the poems of Mart�in Ad�an. Slowly, to the "steady beat of his reptilian feet," Nakamatsu begins to arrange his muted ceremony of farewell. He conjures his smiling wife Keiko and wonders how he lost his Japanese community with her death. With a certain...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help. Lush illustrations are complemented by back matter about the Ashaninka community.
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A darkly funny, surreal novel set in Chile and Peru, Albina and the Dog-Men is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sprawling modern myth in which sexual desire appears as a dangerous and generative force that mutates and transforms, unraveling identities and rending the social and moral fabric of a small town. Written with the stunning vision and cinematic flair he brought to his cult 1970s psychedelic freak-out films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky...
Author
Series
Morirás mañana volume 2
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Javier Garcés, a writer turned killer who pursues those he thinks deserve to die, heads south and west towards Chile in search of Alma Rossi, the woman he loved until she took off with his car and his money, and some old Chilean enemies.
"Regresa Javier Garcés, escritor devenido asesino, esta vez tras la pista de la enigmática Alma Rossi, la mujer a la que ama y a la que se dispone a eliminar, quien ha huído con rumbo sur llevándose su auto...
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This novel follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as the time of fear" in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the armed conflict in the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose.
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