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LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN
130 BOOKS IN THIS CATEGORY
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
On Sale: 09/26/2017
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47614-2
Udo Berger, escritor fracasado y campeón de juegos de estrategia, viaja de nuevo al pequeño pueblo de la Costa Brava catalana donde pasaba los veranos de su infancia. Acompañado por su novia, pasa la mayor parte del tiempo con su juego favorito: El Tercer Reich. Una noche conocen a otra pareja de alemanes, Charly y Hanna, con quien planean pasar los siguientes días. Pero cuando Charly desaparece esa misma noche, la apacible vida de Udo cambiará bruscamente.
Escrita en 1989 y encontrada entre...
Escrita en 1989 y encontrada entre...
SPANISH-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Vintage Espanol
On Sale: 05/16/2017
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47611-1
“Una obra maestra”. —The New Yorker
Arturo Belano y Ulises Lima, dos quijotes modernos, salen tras las huellas de Cesárea Tinajero, la misteriosa escritora desaparecida en México en los años posteriores a la revolución. Esa búsqueda —el viaje y sus consecuencias— se prolonga durante veinte años, bifurcándose a través de numerosos personajes y continentes, Con escenarios como México, Nicaragua, Estados Unidos, Francia y España, y personajes entre los que destacan un fotógrafo español a punto...
Arturo Belano y Ulises Lima, dos quijotes modernos, salen tras las huellas de Cesárea Tinajero, la misteriosa escritora desaparecida en México en los años posteriores a la revolución. Esa búsqueda —el viaje y sus consecuencias— se prolonga durante veinte años, bifurcándose a través de numerosos personajes y continentes, Con escenarios como México, Nicaragua, Estados Unidos, Francia y España, y personajes entre los que destacan un fotógrafo español a punto...
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: 08/23/2016
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-590-17717-4
First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentinean and Spanish-language literature.
Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. Eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid...
Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. Eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid...
POEMS
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 04/28/2015
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-101-87250-5
From much-beloved, bestselling author Sandra Cisneros comes a vibrantly beautiful collection of poems. First published in 1987, in My Wicked Wicked Ways Cisneros embraces her first passion—verse—in poems remarkable for their plainspoken radiance. In lines both comic and sad, the author of The House on Mango Street deftly—and dazzlingly—explores the human experience. For those familiar with Cisneros only from her fiction, My Wicked Wicked Ways shows the acclaimed author in an entirely new...
A WALK THROUGH CARNIVAL IN JACMEL, HAITI (UPDATED)
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 04/28/2015
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-101-87291-8
As a child, acclaimed author Edwidge Danticat was terrified by Carnival festivities—until 2002, when she returned home to Haiti determined to understand the lure of this famed event. Here she chronicles her journey to the coastal town of Jacmel, where she met with the performers, artists, and organizers who re-create the myths and legends that bring the festival to life. In the process, Danticat traces the heroic and tragic history of the island, from French colonists and Haitian...
SELECTED STORIES
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: 01/27/2015
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-590-17767-9
Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal romance, and much else that is incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious. Italo...
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: NYRB Poets
On Sale: 01/27/2015
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-1-590-17774-7
Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America.
Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will...
Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo’s poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love’s travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will...
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 07/01/2014
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47227-4
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
A New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year; a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book; an NPR "Great Read"; a Library Journal Top Book
Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets,...
A New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year; a Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book; an NPR "Great Read"; a Library Journal Top Book
Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets,...
STORIES
Format: Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: 06/10/2014
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-609-80551-7
Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with tightly wound narrative tension, a space...
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 04/08/2014
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74386-2
Have You Seen Marie? Showcases the storytelling magic of Sandra Cisneros, beloved author of The House on Mango Street. This lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for adults is the tale of a woman’s search, in the wake of her mother’s death, for a missing cat—and a reminder that love, even when it goes astray, does not stay lost forever.
“A real-life bedtime story for grownups.” —The Seattle Times
“Cisneros captures the experience of grief with moving and visceral clarity. . . . Like the...
“A real-life bedtime story for grownups.” —The Seattle Times
“Cisneros captures the experience of grief with moving and visceral clarity. . . . Like the...
Format: Trade Paperback, 222 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 03/11/2014
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-74542-2
The American debut of one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain is a daring and deeply affecting story of one Argentine family’s buried secrets. When a young writer returns home to visit his dying father, he finds himself drawn into an obsessive search for a local man gone missing. As the truth—not only about his father but an entire generation—comes to light, the narrator is forced to confront the ghosts of Argentina’s dark political...
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 12/31/2013
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-80505-8
The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us
“There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing fear. Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it – just as we have learned to live with...
“There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God’s time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing fear. Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it – just as we have learned to live with...
