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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)
A Colombian journalist looks back on a long life and on the women he has known and loved--or at least had sex with. As he celebrates his 90th birthday, he begins what he knows is his last sexual relationship, this time an unconsummated one with a virginal 14-year-old, whom he prefers to see asleep. He describes this strange liaison in his long ...
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Living to Tell the Tale
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)
This first volume of a planned trilogy is a portrait of Garcia Marquez's early life, beginning in the Colombian town of Aracataca and ending with his first trip abroad, when he was 29. During the course of these years, Garcia Marquez finds his vocation as a writer.
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News of a Kidnapping
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)
Garcia Márquez writes about the kidnapping of several prominent Colombians by the kingpin of the Medellin cocaine cartel in 1990 and 1991, in an attempt to bargain his way out of being extradited to the United States for trial. Two of the hostages were killed.
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Dancing to Almendra
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Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman (Translator)
On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in New York, a hippo escapes from the zoo. Assigned to cover the zoo story, a young Cuban journalist finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the two incidents in this intoxicating story of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love.
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In the Palm of Darkness
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Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman (Translator)
"In the Palm of Darkness" tells the story of American herpetologist Victor Griggs and Haitian guide Thierry Adrien, who are searching for an amphibian known as the blood frog in the mountains of violence-torn Haiti. The rich and tragic tale of Thierry's family, his life and loves, and his curious destiny, forms a backdrop for the obsessive search ...
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The Messenger
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Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman
Set in Cuba, this brooding novel tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, tenor Enrico Caruso and his mulatta mistress, whose destinies unfold to the rhythms of African and Chinese magic. Print features.
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The Last Night I Spent with You
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Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman (Translator)
Fernando and Celia, a middle-aged Cuban couple, take a cruise to the Caribbean on which each of them becomes infatuated with someone new: Fernando with a mysterious white-haired harpist and Celia with a member of the crew. This story, combined with a parallel plotline about a pair of lovers who tell their tale in letters, is related in alternating ...
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Strange Pilgrims Strange Pilgrims: Stories Stories
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garca-A Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)
These 12 stories about travelers include a brief sketch of Pablo Neruda ("I Sell My Dreams"), a bitterly satirical story about a Latin American couple in France ("The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow''), and an aging prostitute's meditations on mortality, addressed to her dog ("Maria dos Prazeres").
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The Red of His Shadow
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Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman (Translator)
In a novel that takes place entirely during Holy Week, the star-crossed romance of a pair of vaudou (voodoo) practitioners is set against the backdrop of the inhuman working conditions at a sugar mill in the Dominican Republic.
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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
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Alvaro Mutis, Edith Grossman (Translator), Francisco Goldman (Introduction by)
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to ...
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Captain of the Sleepers
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Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman (Translator)
For fifty years, Andres Yasin has carried a grudge against J.T. Bunker. Now, Bunker, eighty-two years old and dying of cancer, wants to tell his side of a story, a story of his affair with Andres's mother. As a child Andres knew Bunker as the "Captain of the Sleepers"-so called because he transported the bodies of those who had died off the island ...
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The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance
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Edith Grossman (Translator), Billy Collins (Introduction by)
The Spanish Renaissance--a period of glory that endured from the late 15th century through the 17th century--comes to life in 40 of its greatest poems collected in this remarkable new translation, rendered with passionate fervor and a stylistic brilliance.
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Living to Tell the Tale
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Monstruary
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Julian Rios, Edith Grossman (Translator)
On a wild night on the town, a Spanish painter called Mons has a series of visions that will become the basis for his great work, the Monstruary.
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Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)
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In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages
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Ariel Dorfman, Edith Grossman (Translator)
In the world of Chilean poet Ariel Dorfman, men and women can be forced to choose between leaving their country or dying for it. The living risk losing everything, but what they hold onto--love, faith, hope, truth--might change the world. It is this subversive possibility that speaks through these poems. A succession of voices--exiles, activists, ...
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Tarzan, My Body, Christopher Columbus
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Jaime Manrique, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator), Edith Grossman (Translator)
Five years after the publication of the internationally acclaimed volume of poems, My Night with Frederica Garcia Lorca (in its third printing), Jaime Manrique, called by the Washington Post Book World, "The most accomplished gay Latino writer of his generation", delivers his second volume of poems in a bilingual edition. Tarzan, My Body, ...
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News of a Kidnapping
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Garcia Márquez writes about the kidnapping of several prominent Colombians by the kingpin of the Medellin cocaine cartel in 1990 and 1991, in an attempt to bargain his way out of being extradited to the United States for trial. Two of the hostages were killed.
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Ayacucho, Goodbye: Moscow's Gold
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Julio Ortega, Yvette E Miller (Editor), Edith Grossman (Translator)
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You, darkness
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Mayra Montero, Edith Grossman
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Gustavo Cisneros Pioneer
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Pablo Bachelet, Edith Grossman (Translator), Carlos Fuentes (Foreword by)
Bachelet shares the fascinating story of billionaire Cisneros, who turned a family business into a multinational entertainment conglomerate.
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Feast of the Goat, the
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Mario Vargas; Grossman Llosa, Edith (Translator)
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Complete Works and Other Stories
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Augusto Monterroso, Edith Grossman (Translator), Will H Corral (Introduction by)
"Sophisticated wit and playful surrealist fantasy dominate these ingenious and gently mocking tales, by a Guatemalan-born soul mate to the late Jorge Luis Borges. This first English translation of Monterroso's work offers the contents of his two published collections, Complete Works and Other Stories (1959) and Perpetual Motion (1972). They're a ...
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The antipoetry of Nicanor Parra
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Of Love and Other Demons of Love and Other Demons
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garca-A Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)
Compelling and unforgettable, this remarkable, bittersweet story of a doomed love affair set in the colonial era "demonstrates that one of the masters of the form is still working at the height of his powers" (The New York Times). Amid the lush, coastal tropics of a South American seaport, an unruly, co pper-haired girl and a bookish priest are ...
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