The history of Peru unfolds in the lives of the descendants of seven children fathered by a Catholic priest and his longtime secret lover. Renato Cisneros's great-great-grandmother Nicolasa bore seven children by her long-term secret love, who was... Zobraziť viac
The mountains of Argentina pulse with life in these disarming stories of people radically reinventing themselves—to find love and connection, to escape their pasts, to offer a way out of the banalities of sorrow and loss in the present. Zobraziť viac
Un juego intertextual que atraviesa la Ciudad de México con el espíritu de Juan Rulfo y Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. José Federico Burgos es un pintor frustrado devenido falsificador, atrapado en un esplendor surrealista y algo alarmante que involucra... Zobraziť viac
After her ex-husband dies unexpectedly, Nora García travels to the funeral, back to a Mexican village from her past and the art and music of their life together. The way you hold a cello, the way light lands on a Caravaggio, the way the castrati hit... Zobraziť viac
Mount Everest, and all it means to royalty, explorers, imperialists, and two sherpas, perched on a cliffside, waiting for a man on the ledge below to move. A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two... Zobraziť viac
Un sensible homenaje a la narración, la infancia y el poder transformador de la música. El segundo libro traducido al inglés de Luis Sagasti emprende un recorrido circular que hace eco de las Variaciones Goldberg de Bach para narrarnos historia tras... Zobraziť viac
“The most influential Colombian novel before Gabriel García Márquez.”—Times Literary SupplementA new translation of a Latin American classic, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover, Alicia, as they elope from... Zobraziť viac
El Monte Everest, con toda su relevancia para la realeza, los exploradores, los imperialistas. Y dos sherpas, posados en un acantilado, esperando que el hombre de la cornisa de abajo se mueva. Un inglés cae de un acantilado en Nepal, y yace inerte en... Zobraziť viac
A woman returns home to confront the past, a family, and the reverberations of a death that she had abandoned decades before. Zobraziť viac
Life under Brazil’s brutal “cordial racism” comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons. How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for himself in the objects his father left behind: the layers that... Zobraziť viac
With Cuba's economic Special Period as a backdrop, Julia sets out on an investigation to befriend two men who could help lead to the document’s whereabouts, and must pick apart a tangled mystery of sex, family legacies and the intricacies of how people... Zobraziť viac
A mother and son inhabit an isolated and increasingly dangerous private world. The third and final installment of Ariana Harwicz's "Involuntary Trilogy" finds us on familiar, disquieting ground. Under the spell of a mother’s madness, the French... Zobraziť viac
Alternating between refugees occupying a building, a father’s sickness, and a wife’s pregnancy, Occupation examines the fragility of life and the brutality of not belonging. Zobraziť viac
Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance... Zobraziť viac
Five hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy vacationers, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Verónica, returning after living in Mexico City, ready to understand herself and the place she came from. San Andrés... Zobraziť viac
Brutal y sobrecogedora, una novela con la dictadura argentina como telón de fondo. Tres historias que forman parte de una misma historia. En 1941, en una ciudad de provincias argentina, una niña con?esa a un sacerdote los primeros y difusos impulsos... Zobraziť viac
A junkie looking for one last fix in a town full of ghosts . This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die – to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be... Zobraziť viac
A fractured account of family abuse, secrets, and the cost of pursuing the truth. In the most private spaces, the most intimate betrayals occur. Belén López Peiró places us squarely in the tenderest of times—young teenagehood, in a home about to be... Zobraziť viac
Byobu reveals a rich inner world, one driven by its meticulous attention to our rich outer one. Zobraziť viac
The weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other. The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in... Zobraziť viac
