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© 2011,Latin America's most famous novel. An overnight sensation when it was first published in 1967, it has been translated into dozens of languages and remains a perennial favorite of readers around the world. Its strange, mesmerizing blend of the real and the
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© 2010,The first English translation of an Argentinean classic. Argentina, 1839. A young man dies for his political beliefs when attacked by a mob in a slaughteryard used to butcher cattle. The story takes place at the height of Juan Manuel de Rosas reign of terror. Though fictional, it is an open indictment of that brutal regime and the first masterwork of Latin-American literature, orginally published twenty years after the author s death. El matadero, or The Slaughteryard, is reputed to be the most widely studied school text in Spanish-speaking South America. Available now for the first time in a modern English translation this is a story that in well over a century has lost none of its freshness and popularity. This edition is the fruit of years of research into little-known corners of Argentine literature and history, including an extensive glossary, the story s rare first printed version, and an appendix of reports by early English travellers to the River Plate, including Charles Darwin. This is an uncompromising and unforgettable story of huge force and power which richly deserves a wide English-speaking audience."
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© 2002,Margarita is all fun and games, and those are the things she shares with her best friends: her grandmother and her great-grandmother. She discovers that through the years much changes, but fun and games are always the same!
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© 2015,Las fuerzas extrañas.LEOPOLDO LUGONESArgentina 1874 - 1938
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© 2003,The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century--in any language" (Gabriel GarcÍa MÁrquez) In his work a continent awakens to consciousness," wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers and political figures--a loyal member of the Communist party, a lifelong diplomat and onetime senator, a man lionized during his lifetime as "the people's poet." Born Neftali Basoalto, Neruda adopted his pen name in fear of his family's disapproval, and yet by the age of twenty-five he was already famous for the book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, which remains his most beloved. During the next fifty years, a seemingly boundless metaphorical language linked his romantic fantasies and the fierce moral and political compass--exemplified in books such as Canto General--that made him an adamant champion of the dignity of ordinary men and women. Edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans, this is the most comprehensive single-volume collection of this prolific poet's work in English. Here the finest translations of nearly six hundred poems by Neruda are collected and join specially commissioned new translations that attest to Neruda's still-resounding presence in American letters.
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© 2008,With prisons overflowing in Chile, the president declares a general amnesty for all nonviolent criminals. Ángel Santiago, a youth determined to avenge abuse he received in jail, seeks out the notorious bank robber Nicolás Vergara Grey, whose front-page exploits won him a reputation he would rather leave behind. Their plan for an ambitious and daring robbery is complicated by the galvanizing presence of Victoria Ponce, a virtuosic dancer and high-school dropout whose father was a victim of the regime. Praised for his "ability to place a personal story in the context of a national upheaval and make it warm, funny and universal" (San Francisco Chronicle), Antonio Skármeta sets this exuberant love story against the backdrop of the new Chile, free from the Pinochet dictatorship but beholden to the perils of globalization. The Dancer and the Thief, which won Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize, is a remarkable new novel from one of South America's finest storytellers.
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© 2007,The majority of the book consists of 3 interviews with Álvaro Mutis, followed by the story, La muerte del estratega.
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© 2015,"La guerra gaucha", de Leopoldo Lugones. Leopoldo Lugones fue un poeta, ensayista, periodista y político argentino (1874-1938)
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© 2000,Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, awakens one morning to read in the Santiago newspaper that her best friend, Violeta, has been involved in a brutal act of violence. Overwhelmed with regret and plagued with guilt for not having foreseen the tragedy, Josefa feels compelled to tell Violeta's life story--one marked by lost ideals, disillusionment, and grief--which is ultimately Josefa's story, too. Through the interwoven lives of these two women, Marcela Serrano explores how the demands of a woman's role as mother, wife, lover, and friend are frequently at odds with her own dreams and aspirations, and how easily the fragile bonds of friendship and family can be strained to the breaking point. For Josefa and Violeta, it is only in Antigua, under the watchful eyes of "the others"--a chorus of female ancestral spirits who testify to the women's defining moments of strength and courage--that Josefa and Violeta will discover that even in the aftermath of violence and betrayal they have control over their destinies and their redemption. Exquisitely crafted and written in beautiful, lyrical prose, Marcela Serrano's unforgettable novel about friendship, forgiveness, and second chances speaks to every woman who has experienced the wrenching divide between professional ambition and family responsibility, who has been torn between the excitement of illicit passion and the security of marriage, who has craved the thrill of success while yearning for solitude in an often chaotic, invasive world.
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© 1991,Formerly exiled Chilean author Ariel Dorfman, one of Latin America's greatest writers and a major literary figure of the twentieth century, is known for such critically acclaimed works as the novel Widows and the play Death and the Maiden . A master of various literary forms, this collection draws together Dorfman's critical essays on contemporary Latin American writing. Spanning more than twenty years and arranged in chronological order, each essay is devoted to a single author--Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges, José Maria Arguedas, Alejo Carpentier, Gabrial Garcia Márquez, Roa Bastos--and one final essay looks at the "testimonial" or concentration camp literature from Chile. Praise for Ariel Dorfman "One of the most important voices coming out of Latin America."--Salman Rushdie "A remarkable writer . . . writing out of a very different cultural perspective from comfortable American readers."--Digby Diehl, Los Angeles Herald Examiner "One of the six greatest Latin American novelists."--Jacobo Timmerman, Newsweek
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© 2004,Inscritos en la llamada literatura psicol gica, los personajes de las novelas de Eltit develan la urdimbre desgarrada del tel n social. el cuarto mundo explora la percepci n del mundo que dos mellizos tienen desde el vientre de su madre. Los vigilantes trata de la vida de una madre con un hijo que padece retraso mental y cuyo padre aparece s lo en las cartas que env a. Mano de obra construye un universo alucinante con personajes cautivos en una mec nica de supervivencia y horror.
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© 2011,There old comrades-in-arms have been called together at the behest of the anarchist, Pedro Nolasco - a.k.a. The Shadow - to carry out one last revolutionary gesture before time and age get the better of them. They agree to reunite in a warehouse in Santiago. It will be their first meeting since going underground after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup. The men share a past as members of Chile's Socialist Liberation Army and as militant supporters of President Salvador Allende. Scarred by an era of oppression and paranoia, they cautiously reconnect. They settle on a date, a location, a secret password. But a cruel and darkly comic destiny waylays their illustrious leader, and on the night of the meeting they wait in vain. The Shadow has disappeared and somebody will have to step up and fill his shoes. Who better than Coco Aravena? In revolutionary circles, nobody has ever taken the reckless and bumbling Coco seriously. But now his moment has come. By one of Chile's most famous and beloved authors, The Shadow of What We Were is a humorous and moving examination of what becomes of our glorious pasts in the inglorious present. ' Melancholic, entertaining and toughing. A fable and a noir in which wisdom and self-mockery are paramount.' L'Espresso 'Lyrical and ironic, the Chilean author expands on his 'revolutionary' themes.' La Stampa ' The Shadow of What We Were is an adventure story abundantly infused with humor and tenderness.' La Repubblica ' Sepúlveda takes the misfortunes of a generation that has been humiliated by dictatorship but can still hold its head high and transforms them into literature.' Ill Secolo XIX 'Sepúlveda is one of Latin America's most emblematic voices. ' France 24
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© 2008,Gonzalo Rojas was born in Chile in 1917, and his life began with a stroke of lightning as a boy. He was later connected with a surrealist group and became one of the most noted poets of his country. This collection is brilliantly translated by John Simon.
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© 2006,"The melancholy folklore of exile," as Roberto Bolano once put it, pervades these fourteen haunting stories. Bolano's narrators are usually writers grappling with private (and generally unlucky) quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime. These protagonists tend to take detours and to narrate unresolved efforts. They are characters living in the margins, often coming to pieces, and sometimes, as in a nightmare, in constant flight from something horrid.In the short story "Silva the Eye," Bolano writes in the opening sentence: "It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as The Eye, always tried to escape violence, even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around 20 years old when Salvador Allende died."Set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe, and peopled by Bolano's beloved "failed generation," the stories of Last Evenings on Earth have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street.
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© 2010,In Death as a Side Effect , Ana María Shua's brilliantly dark satire transports readers to a dystopic future Argentina where gangs of ad hoc marauders and professional thieves roam the streets while the wealthy purchase security behind fortified concrete walls and the elderly cower in their apartments in fear of being whisked off to state-mandated "convalescent" homes, never to return. Abandoned by his mistress, suffocated by his father, and estranged from his demented mother and ineffectual sister, Ernesto seeks his vanished lover. Hoping to save his dying father from the ministrations of a diabolical health-care system, he discovers that, ultimately, everyone is a patient, and the instruments wielded by the impersonal medical corps cut to the very heart of the social fabric. The world of this novel, with its closed districts, unsafe travel, ubiquitous security cameras, and widespread artificiality and uncertainty, is as familiar as it is strange--and as instructive, in its harrowing way, as it is deeply entertaining. The Spanish edition has been selected by the Congreso de la Lengua Española as one of the one hundred best Latin American novels published in the last twenty-five years.
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© 2014,Genoa, 1597. Angelo DeGrasso, Inquisitor General of Liguria, is an implacable and deeply faithful man, known for his cruelty in punishing heretics and his blind obedience to the Holy See. He is given an important mission from the Pope in which he fights both heretics and himself in an intricate labyrinth of mysteries. An enthralling story that takes place between bonfires and castles, surrounded by witches' covens and scandalous romances in the turbulent end of the 16th century.
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© 2010,Meses y meses repiti ndome la misma pregunta in til: por qu nos metieron presas? qu hicimos, qu pensamos, qu dijimos de m s, qu amenaza encarnamos sin siquiera darnos cuenta? [] Dieciocho escritoras borradas de un plumazo. En arresto domiciliario. Una verdadera mierda. Con estas l neas, Luisa Valenzuela inicia un relato cuya protagonista, confinada sin raz n, no tiene m s que escribir en su laptop. el regreso de un fornido conocido israel Para rescatarla y esclarecer el misterio da a esta novela un toque rosa, si bien sta es una b squeda de esencias femeninas, personales, ling sticas y humanas y una exploraci n de esa bestia que sujeta al hombre y lo manipula, el lenguaje.
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© 2013,Tony Durán, un extraño forastero, nacido en Puerto Rico, educado como un norteamericano en Nueva Jersey, fue asesinado a comienzos de los años setenta en un pueblo de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Antes de morir, Tony ha sido el centro de la atención de t
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© 2009,Cinderella's sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince's love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A fox and a badger compete to out-fool each other. Whether writing of insomnia from a mosquito's point of view or showing us what happens after the princess kisses the frog, Ana María Shua, in these fleet and incandescent stories, is nothing if not pithy--except, of course, wildly entertaining. Some as short as a sentence, these microfictions have been selected and translated from four different books. Flashes of insight, cracks of wit, twists of logic, and quirks of language: these are fictions in the distinguished Argentinean tradition of Borges and Cortázar and Denevi, as powerful as they are brief. One of Argentina's most prolific and distinguished writers, and acclaimed worldwide, Shua displays in these microfictions the epitome of her humor, riddling logic, and mastery over our imagination. Now, for the first time in English, the fox transforms itself into a fable, and "the reader is invited to find the tail."
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© 2010,El delirante y perturbador misterio de un impostor El narrador vio por primera vez a aquel hombre en 1971 o 1972, cuando Allende era aún Presidente de Chile. Escribía poemas distantes y cautelosos, seducía a las mujeres y despertaba en los hombres una indefinible desconfianza. Volvió a verlo después del golpe, pero en ese momento ignoraba que aquel aviador, que escribía versículos de la Biblia con el humo de un avión de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el poeta, eran uno, y el mismo. Y así nos es contada la historia de un impostor, de un hombre de muchos nombres, sin otra moral que la estética, dandy del horror, asesino y fotógrafo del miedo, artista bárbaro que llevaba sus creaciones hasta sus últimas y letales consecuencias. Novela clave en la obra de Roberto Bolaño, Estrella Distante es, además de un apasionante thriller intelectual, una escalofriante investigación sobre la mentalidad fascista y sus efectos en la sensibilidad literaria.