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By Mayday Mc. 2019
Disfrutando la idea de pasar las vacaciones de Navidad con sus padres, que se habían mudado recientemente a Edmonton, Manu…
decidió volar a Canadá. Sin embargo, no había previsto que su viaje tomaría un rumbo diferente. Atascado en el aeropuerto de Toronto, sería en los brazos del cautivador Julián que terminará por tomar su molestia con paciencia.... Y más aún las afinidades.By A. J. Mitar. 2014
Una terrible guerra generacional está llegando a su fin. La temible especie teyon está ganando, pero la intervención de una…
potencia alienígena desconocida lo cambiará todo. ¿Quiénes son los alienígenas? ¿Qué misterio esconde su llegada?By A. J. Mitar. 2018
En un futuro sin el hombre ... alguien más va a enfrentarse por el dominio de la Tierra. Una guerra…
librada con cualquier medio, con las garras y las armas más sofisticadas. El misterio de la génesis de una nueva especie reavivará el interés por el antiguo pueblo de los Terrestres. ¿Cuáles serán los inquietantes descubrimientos? ¿La resolución del misterio decidirá el destino del conflicto?By Edward Rutherfurd. 1987
Una impresionante obra maestra. Una novela épica sobre la civilización británica que recorre la vida de cinco familias inglesas a…
través de los siglos. Con Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd se adentra esta vez en los entresijos históricos de la civilización británica, civilización que cobra vida a través de los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en la zona de Salisbury a lo largo de casi cien siglos. Los parajes de Salisbury serán el escenario por el que transcurran las agitadas vidas de cinco familias muy diferentes. Se trata de los Wilson y los Shockley, envueltos en una espiral de rivalidad y venganza durante más de cuatrocientos años; de los Mason, involucrados en la creación de lugares como Stonehenge o la catedral de Salisbury; de los Porteus, descendientes de un joven soldado romano en el exilio; y de la familia aristocrática de los Godfrey, que caerán en la absoluta miseria antes de lograr recuperar su fortuna.Un minucioso retrato de la civilización británica firmado por uno de los grandes maestros de la novela histórica que nos recuerda que son los destinos individuales los que trazan el devenir de los grandes acontecimientos.By Neil Gaiman. 2006
Cuentos y relatos breves en los que Gaiman nos regala un nuevo punto de vista sobre el mundo. Este extraordinario…
libro nos sumerge en el universo particular de Neil Gaiman: tierno, gótico, infantil, fantástico, cargado de un oscuro sentido del humor y, sobre todo, de una imaginación fuera de lo común y un talento que lo convierten en un escritor excepcional.Los meses, convertiros en personajes que hablan y se relacionan, intercambian opiniones en su reunión anual; un hombre medio devorado nos habla de cómo se hizo amigo de su querido caníbal; incluso Sherezade, la mayor contadora de historias de todos los tiempos, recibe un homenaje. Un misterioso circo que aterroriza al público con su asombrosa actuación antes de desaparecer en mitad de la noche y llevarse a una espectadora con ellos; en una Inglaterra victoriana un tanto extraña, Sherlock Holmes y su inseparable ayudante deben resolver el asesinato de un miembro de la familia real; los miembros de un exclusivo club epicúreo, hastiados ya de haber probado todo lo imaginable, se van a Egipto para degustar el mítico pájaro del Sol, sin imaginar siquiera las consecuencias que traerá tamaño atrevimiento... Reseñas:«Un compendio precioso. Neil Gaiman es un Tesoro nacional.»Washington Post Book World «Las historias de Objetos frágiles son una pequeña muestra del talento y de la maravillosa imaginación de Gaiman.»USA TodayBy Monique Gray Smith. 2020
"The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you…
love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy." -- Provided by NLSBy Patricio Pron. 2010
"The eighteen stories that make up the book put an end to all the conventions of the genre, while being…
an extraordinary exploration of identity, memory, lies and, above all, of writing as a profession, an art and a way of life. |The World without People Who Ruin It and Make It Ugly| reminds us that the struggle and determination of writers, and their foolish pride, sometimes also lead to intimate and secret glory. Here is a writer we can no longer overlook." -- Translation provided by NLSBy Elizabeth Strout. 2017
"A collection of stories of the residents of the small Illinois town of Amgash, the hometown of Lucy from My…
Name Is Lucy Barton. Experiencing more than their fair share of violence, abuse, and general unhappiness, the residents all share a connection to the absent Lucy." -- Provided by NLSBy Camila Sosa Villada. 2022
"In the midst of the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a…
smokehouse in Harlem, a Latina transvestite gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex and get what they deserve in return. Nuns, grandmothers, children and dogs are never what they seem. The nine stories that make up this book are inhabited by quirky, deeply human characters who confront an ominous reality in ways as strange as they are themselves." -- Translation provided by NLSBy Margarita García Robayo. 2012
By Margarita García Robayo. 2020
"In |Until a Hurricane Passes|, a middle-class teenager is the protagonist of an often tedious life, in a city near…
the sea, from which she dreams of fleeing. In |What I Didn't Learn|, a girl carefully observes the figure that her father represents: a lawyer who performs paranormal practices. Her innocent voice and her lucid gaze are a quest to heal her own story. Finally there is |Sex Education|, a text that moves between autobiographical fiction and the essay, set in an Opus Dei school in the Caribbean. With the latter, the connections between the three titles are revealed: a collection of youthful portraits of women who rebel with irony, intelligence and courage in the face of tradition and abuse, and who constantly try to reinvent themselves in other worlds." -- Amazon.com"Perhaps some of the great stories written in our language are not the ones we thought they were. There are…
unjustifiable absences. Masterpieces buried by disdain or neglect or machismo. This anthology of Hispanic American women short story writers arises to question the conviction that we know the great short stories of the twentieth century. Its aim is to destabilize our literary history. It is convenient to completely reread our past to vindicate women authors and texts that we should never forget. This book is just a sample: twenty stories --and twenty women authors--that dialogue with each other, one for each country in Spain and Latin America, that obey no other criterion than the highest artistic challenge." -- Translation provided by NLSBy Marcial Gala. 2019
"The characters, immersed in the maelstrom of Cuba in the second half of the 20th century, feel that history is…
a skin that overlaps their own epidermis. Will rock be an effective way of not losing one's own essence? How to find oneself? The death of a soldier in the middle of training, letters from Che that save a young girl from returning to prison, a farewell speech by Fidel Castro communicating the end of the Argentine guerrilla fighter in Bolivia? Rock and Roll also tells the story of those who are nobody, pushed by the winds of change. Rock is both initiation and the promise of an illusory paradise that makes you believe that everything happens to the rhythm of this forbidden and desired music." -- Provided by NLSBy Diego Zúñiga. 2016
"Model apartments, long walks through the city, love affairs in inhospitable suburbs, everyday life in a public hospital, an occupied…
school, some kidnapped students, the unexpected fate of a promising soccer player. These are some of the places, characters and situations present in the ten splendid and memorable stories of Hero Children. Moving partially away from the Chilean north, the central setting of his celebrated novels Camanchaca and Racimo, Diego Zúñiga explores life in the big city in these stories. He does so with a subtle style that restricts itself in descriptions and explanations and chooses, instead, to suggest and show, making way for the power of these stories starring children, adolescents and young people who live their affections and disaffections, their despair and admiration, their grudges and dreams without facing obstacles." -- Provided by NLSBy Jorge Luis Borges. 2003
"Once again the two writers unites, under the pseudonym through which they had previously published "Six Problems for Don Isidro…
Parodi" and "Chronicles of Bustos Domecq", to produce a series of fantasies with the common denominator of absurd humor. Famously, the short story "The Monster's Party" is a harsh parody of the times when Juan Perón ruled Argentina." -- GoodreadsBy Sylvia C. Pena. 1986
Opens the door to the world of literature for English and Spanish speaking children of pre-school to young adult reading…
levels. The collection of short stories and poems is designed to stimulate children's imagination and creativity, as well as their linguistic mastery and reading skills. It reflects the characters, themes and customs specific to Hispanic culture in the United States. For preschool to grade 2. Unrated. Bilingual: English and SpanishBy Raúl Vallejo Corral. 2013
"The narrative of erotic love moves us because it touches our naked intimacy. Our desires emerge in the skin and…
are realized in the sexual communion of bodies. In our society, where the culture of spectacle prefers superficial hedonism, the erotic is a utopia inhabited by individuals who resist the trivialization of love. Equinoctial Pubis, the book of stories you are holding in your hands, is shocking because its author tells us stories of everyday people confronted with the secrets of their own sexuality, secrets that are also our own. This book is in the best tradition of Western erotic literature. In these stories we find traces of the mystical eros of The Song of Songs, traces of the debauched abandon of The Decameron, signs of the sexual intrigues of Dangerous Liaisons, vestiges of the abysses of desire to which Anaís Nin and Henry Miller pushed us. Prude moralism has no place in these pages." -- Translation provided by NLSBy Alberto Fuguet. 2012
"Connecting directly with Generation Ñ, the second novel by Fuguet runs at a breakneck speed. It sometimes feels more like…
a video clip than a conventional novel. Fuguet tells stories with a common background of adolescence, of sex, drugs, and rock n roll. At the high speed that this novel is narrated, it questions the present from the perspective of diverse protagonists--men and women living a doubtful and strange modernity; in this sense, |Please, Rewind| is a great chronicle of our times." -- Amazon.comBy Liliana Colanzi Serrate. 2022
"Liliana Colanzi's stories explore different ways of narrating time, such as the geological journey in a cave, the search for…
the historical roots of rubber extraction in the ruins of an Amazonian village, or the dislocated temporality of a religious colony in which her characters long to get rid of the prohibitions that strand them in the past. In this book, radiation is an invisible agent that affects young people living near an Andean nuclear power plant and scrap collectors in a Brazilian city." -- Translation provided by NLSBy José Emilio Pacheco. 2020
"The Blood of Medusa gathers stories written by José Emilio Pacheco from 1956 to 1984, scattered until now in magazines,…
newspapers and pamphlets that are no longer available. Works of precocious solidity the oldest and of persistent strength the most recent, these stories have pursued their author, like stubborn ghosts, until they obtained from him their final version and escaped from the limbo of ephemeral reading publications. The result is the difficult re-reading that the mature writer makes of the pages that marked the stages of his development as a storyteller (and also that of Latin American narrative in its manners and concerns of the last forty years): "although I have modified them completely, their primitive structure remains intact. We can change everything except our vision of the world and our syntax." The stories that make up The Blood of Medusa constitute a series of extremely varied texts, an exhibition of mastery and registers: from the Borgesian precision of the juvenile tales or the brilliant satires in the manner of the Latins or Swift, to the avant-garde "horror" toys, the acidic two-line mini-stories, the conjectural monologues inspired by political-politicians' events. Like everything written by Pacheco, these texts speak directly to the reader, with a radical intelligibility, to think, to feel, to know with him and also, most especially in this volume, to invite him to enjoyment, the pleasure of inventing, the festive complicity that is literature." -- Translation provided by NLS