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1	Pedro Páramo more books like this by Juan Rulfo add to wishlist Juan Preciado made a promise to his mother, who is dying, that he would go to her birthplace and look for his father, Pedro Paramo. She remembers a village, robust and full of life, that no longer exists--Comala is a decaying town, surrounded by mirages. Pedro Paramo may or may not be alive; he is described by one traveler as "living bile," who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba more books like this by Gabriel Garcia Marquez add to wishlist "No One Writes to the Colonel" is a masterpiece study of a lonely old man who was once powerful--among the master's greatest works of insight into the human condition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The infinite plan more books like this by Isabel Allende add to wishlist Isabel Allende's powerful tale of one boy's escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and poverty which is his family's lot, never questioning the validity of his father's homespun philosophy of life -- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Ficciones more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist "Fictions" is a collection of short stories, influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes. Borges turns dry logical puzzles into enchanting fables. see all copies from $2.77! new only from $7.27! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Breves cuentos hispanos more books like this by Thomas E Kooreman, Olga M Kooreman add to wishlist For third, fourth, or fifth semester Intermediate Spanish courses. Breves cuentos hispanos offers elementary/intermediate Spanish students enjoyable, short, challenging stories. Each story includes a series of varied activities including grammar review, vocabulary development, comprehension, discussion, and opinion questions. The third edition of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $43.15! \| SVS
6	Autumn of the Patriarch more books like this by Gabriel Garcia Marquez add to wishlist "Majestic . . . superb. . . . A stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garcia Marquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky".--New York Times Book Review. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Anodyne Necklace more books like this by Martha Grimes add to wishlist The discovery of a corpse, is enough to draw Superintendent Richard Jury and his Sergeant to the irresistable village of Littlebourne, where the trail leads them to the East End of London and to the Anodyne Necklace pub, which provides a further clue to unmasking the unlikely villian. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The time of the hero more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa add to wishlist A powerful social satire which outraged the authorities of the author's native Peru, where 1000 copies were publicly burned. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $10.12! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	La Familia de Pascual Duarte more books like this by Camilo Jose Cela add to wishlist Unabridged edition of Cela's modern novel, with study aids. Winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature. see all copies from $2.29! new only from $12.28! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Heart So White more books like this by Javier Marias add to wishlist Before marrying Juan's mother, Juan's father Ranz had been married to her sister--for a few days. Shortly after their honeymoon, the woman committed suicide. Ranz is traumatized by this to such a degree that his personality becomes quite menacing; Juan and his new wife Luisa, translators for diplomats, try to come to grips with the past of Juan's ... see all copies from $2.26! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Aura more books like this by Carlos Fuentes add to wishlist Perfect literary work that is sufficient and definitive. In this short novel, the famous Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes embodies in a marvelous way the myth and the plot, the search, the encounter and the separation, life and death. Hugo Montero, the historian, reads a classified ad that makes him relive the story of the dead and, without knowing ... see all copies from $4.87! new only from $6.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Doctor Brodie's report more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist This collection of 11 short stories includes "The Gospel According to Mark", "The Unworthy Friend", "The Duel", "The End of the Duel", "Rosendo's Tale", "The Intruder", "The Meeting", "Juan Mruana", "The Elder Lady", "Guayaquil" and "Doctor Brodie's Report". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.00! \| first editions
13	Doctor Frigo more books like this by Eric Ambler add to wishlist A thriller by the author of "The Mask of Dimitrios", "The Levanter" and "Send no more Roses". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada more books like this by Gabriel Garcia Marquez add to wishlist Este libro excepcional reune la novela corta que le otorga su titulo y otros seis relatos mas, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la etapa de plena madurez del escritor.Fueron los anos en los que Macondo le abrio las puertas del realismo magico: la frase se hace mas larga y caudalosa, la realidad se expresa mediante formulas magicas y ... see all copies from $2.48! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The orange tree more books like this by Carlos Fuentes add to wishlist Translated by Alfred MacAdam, a collection of five novellas from this author which explores the theme of cultural conflict. From the author of THE CAMPAIGN. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Lazarillo de Tormes more books like this by Anonymous add to wishlist First picaresque novel, from mid-16th-century Spain, tells of a rogue's adventures and misadventures. Introduction, Notes, and new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.07! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Primera memoria more books like this by Ana M Matute add to wishlist With the Spanish Civil war as a backdrop, this prize-winning novel relates the passage from childhood to adolescence of Matia and her cousin Boya, who live with their grandmother. An extensive gallery of secondary characters assists Matia's awakening from an unreal existence to an understanding of "the dark life" of the adults around her. see all copies from $5.24! new only from $37.69!
18 view cover	Two Spanish Picaresque Novels: 3 more books like this by Franciso de Quevedo, Michael Alpert (Introduction by) add to wishlist The social conditions of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries bred the picaresque novel, which replaces the romantic hero with a rascally figure living by his wits. "Lazarillo de Tormes" (1554), the first and best of these essays in realism, describes the ingenious ruses employed by a boy from Salamanca to outwit his various masters. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.89! \| signed copies \| SVS
19	Body snatcher. more books like this by Juan Carlos Onetti add to wishlist Junta Larsen, a Promethean pimp, attempts to "achieve two perfections--a perfect woman and a perfect bordello" in the sleepy South American outback town of Santa Maria. "This masterful novel ranks with the fictions of Puig, Cortazar and Marquez. His serpentine lyricism tempered by whiplash irony, Onetti is an elegist of the twentieth century".- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.09! \| first editions
20 view cover	Confabulario and other inventions. more books like this by Juan José Arreola add to wishlist see all copies from $3.95! new only from $26.69! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Don Quixote more books like this by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra add to wishlist Perhaps the greatest--and certainly the most famous--novel ever written in Spanish, "Don Quixote" is the classic picaresque tale of a knight-errant living in a world which has no use for him. Written as a history, it gives an account of the life of Don Quixote of la Mancha, a deluded 17th-century Spaniard who believes himself to be a medieval ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.10! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Lost Steps more books like this by Alejo Carpentier add to wishlist A composer and his mistress leave New York to travel to the upper reaches of a South American river to collect primitive musical instruments. As they enter into the deepest recesses of the jungle, they also seem to travel back in time until they reach a village untouched by history. This classic magic-realist novel was an important influence on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Sonar un Crimen more books like this by Rosana Acquaroni Munoz add to wishlist While vacationing in Marbella, Carlos sees her for the first time. Since then, he has lived in a dream world, not knowing who she is, but he is certain that a great danger lurks within her. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.49!
24 view cover	An Olympic Death more books like this by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Ed Emery (Translator) add to wishlist As Barcelona prepares for the Games, Private Investigator Pepe Carvalho finds himself forced to work for Olympic entrepreneurs. As he cruises the backstreets, he remembers an older, seedier Barcelona hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City and is forced to confront the sins of the past. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.85! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	1492 : the life and times of Juan Cabezón of Castile more books like this by Homero Aridjis add to wishlist A best-seller in Latin America in the 1980s, this novel of life in fifteenth-century Spain depicts a world in which both the Moors and the Jews are under attack. This is the formative period of the phenomenon known today as Crypto-Judaism, and Aridjis's widely praised book, now available for the first time in a paperback edition, will find a broad ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS

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