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22) Reina de América
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Español
Description
Three young people, Rat, a Catalan woman; Aida, a visionary with whom Rat shares a strange friendship; and Wilson, a reporter in hiding and the link between the two women; come face-to-face with the drug-trafficking and violence that characterize Colombia while living in an isolated coastal region of the country.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Ángeles Mastretta narra el inicial amor sumiso de Catalina, una apasionada mujer mexicana, por el general Andrés Ascencio. Asimismo, destaca la progresiva desvinculación de su papel de subordinación conyugal y del engañoso contexto social que la rodea"--Container.
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution.
26) Canción
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"In Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories and, soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather's captors, including a butcher...
Author
Series
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela de barrio es, en esencia, una historia de venganza. Cuando en los años setenta dos ladrones asaltan un banco matan a un niño durante su huida. Años después, uno de los atracadores muere asesinado. Su compañero en el atraco, convencido de que él será el siguiente, intenta adelantarse y matar a quien sospecha debe ser el verdugo : David Miralles, padre del niño. La intervención del inspector Méndez, un policía a punto de jubilarse...
30) La araña Ariadna
Author
Series
Colección picnic volume 8
Publisher
Almadraba
Pub. Date
©2011, ©2009.
Language
Español
Author
Series
Aventuras del capitán Alatriste volume 1
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Publisher
Pukiyari Editores
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Es un honor presentar Lo que tenemos en común - Antología de narradores peruanos en Estados Unidos.Lo que tenemos en común es una colección de treinta y dos narraciones escritas por doce autores de origen peruano con residencia estadounidense. Compilada por Alfredo M. Del Arroyo y Ricardo Vacca-Rodríguez, esta antología busca resaltar las letras de cada uno de sus participantes: Alberto Caballero, Alfredo M. Del Arroyo, Ani Palacios, Fernando...
38) Berta Isla
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tomás studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen, and anxious, Berta's new husband has become a stranger...
39) Dublinesque
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1234
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
One night, a renowned and now retired literary publisher has a vivid dream that takes place in Dublin, a city he's never visited. The central scene of the dream is a funeral in the era of Ulysses. The publisher would give anything to know if an unidentified character in his dream is the great author he always wanted to meet, or the ghostly angel who abandoned him during childhood. As the days go by, he will come to understand that his vision of the...
40) En el Viaje
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Un grupo de amigos parte de la Ciudad de México hacia Real de Catorce: Lorenzo, un editor literario con temor a ser leído, conduce un Peugeot sucio y raspado; junto a él viaja Mauro, anarquista pero hijo de uno de los hombres más ricos del país, y en el asiento trasero va Javiera, de una belleza casi tan extraordinaria como su torpeza.
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