In a Latin American country under a military dictatorship, Irene Beltran, an upper-class journalist, and Francisco Leal, the photographer son of a Marxist professor, discover a hideous crime.
Octavio Paz's biography of Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), considered the greatest lyric poet of Mexico's Golden Age, is also about the intellectual, political, and religious climate of 17th-century Mexico, and about the duty of the poet to rebel against the restrictions of orthodoxy. Paz has said, "Sor Juana is a mirror of me, a consciousness, ...
A Spanish sailor named Coy becomes intrigued by a beautiful woman he encounters at a maritime auction. Her name is Tánger, and she is in search of a lost treasure that she believes lies at the bottom of the ocean off the coast. She draws Coy into her obsessive scheme to find it--and he, of course, falls in love with her.
These humorous odes, written in short, brisk lines, address the banal and the everyday: tomatoes, artichokes, wrist watches, watermelons, salt, socks, wood. The odes represent Neruda's trend toward simplicity and directness later in his life.
From Mexico, 27 of the country's outstanding writers are brought together for a first anthology of short story fiction, translated for the first time in English. Features a preface by Ilan Stavans.
A magical short novel that weaves together two stories, two couples, two different times, and two grand passionsIn one of the narratives that comprise this superb new novel from Carlos Fuentes, we are introduced to Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great love Inez Prada, a renowned singer. In the other, Fuentes ...
In this heartfelt memoir, Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss--the death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, and wisdom, this work is a portrait of a contemporary family, tied together by the love and loyalty of a determined matriarch.
Famed literary writer Allende uses a structure that mimics the workings of memory itself to speak compellingly to immigrants and anyone trying to retain a coherent life in a world of contradictions.
The charismatic host of the most-watched talk show in the world and head of a multimedia empire tells the inspirational story of her career, her success, and her secrets for getting it all and keeping it all. For the first time, the "Hispanic Oprah" reveals how she got where she is today, professionally and personally. photo insert.
Ever since Dana was a little girl, Kai has been her best friend and constant companion--even though she's the only one who can see him. Then the mysterious Maestro comes to her farm and offers her the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to study sorcery in the Valley of the Wolves. And Dana knows she must go, for the Maestro can see Kai too.... ...
Josefa, a famous Chilean singer, tells the story of her friend Violeta's life when she hears that Violeta has been the victim of a violent act. As Josefa tells Violeta's story, she looks at her own life as well, and finds that she can make changes she thought were impossible.
A seagull who is near death after being caught in an oil slick searches with her dying breath for a safe place to lay her egg. She manages to fly to the balcony of an apartment building that is home to an honorable black cat named Zorba. Zorba promises the seagull that he will look after the egg, and promises her that he will teach the hatchling ...
The pieces collected in "Mexican Writers on Writing" present a vibrant cross-section of Mexican authors' thoughts on the written word, from Carlos Fuentes's instructional Decalogue, to Bernardo de Balbuena's eloquent dissertation on the beauty of poetry, to Octavio Paz's analysis of the essence of translation. From the literature of colonialism ...
Teodora marries a ne'er-do-well from her Colombian village, not realizing that he is only after her money. When money gets tight, she works for Dr Amiel who produces anatomically correct confectionary and other erotic goodies. Under his tutelage, Teodora receives a culinary and carnal education.
In words and photographic portraits, the authors bring together forty-eight of Mexico's most acclaimed artists -- among them Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz -- in the performing, visual, and literary arts, displaying the creative powers of a nation.
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, ...
Isabel Allende: Life and Spirits is a passionate look at the life and literary work of one of the most renowned contemporary writers in Latin American literature. Celia Correas Zapata traces Isabel Allende's trajectory in Allende's own voice, through a series of interviews that reveal her experiences, her family environment, and the genesis and ...
Brilliant, profound and startlingly comic, here is a transformation of the old stories about the discovery of the Americas by distinguished Argentinian author Abel Posse. Ranging from the decadent Spanish court to the shores of the Mediterranean to the tropical Earthly Paradise, the Admiral of the Ocean Sea triumphantly finds the New World.
Valenzuela's first collection of stories in several years features Up Among the Eagles, a group of fourteen stories now published in English, and a selection of the best stories from her books Clara and Strange Things Happen Here.
Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar Ilan Stavans tackles the avant-garde poet's politics head-on in an enlightening new introduction that places ...
Famed literary writer Allende uses a structure that mimics the workings of memory itself to speak compellingly to immigrants and anyone trying to retain a coherent life in a world of contradictions.
This book, published in an English/Spanish bilingual format, reproduces the complete text of what has become one of the classic works of Spanish American literature. Well known as a poet during her lifetime, the nun's bold confrontation with high church authority, followed shortly by her death during an epidemic while tending to her sister nuns, ...
Ramón López Velarde (1888-1921) was one of the most Mexican of Mexican poets, whose sense of history found expression in many poems, including his best-known "La suave Patria" ("Sweet Land"). This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to his ...
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