San Juan: Memoir of a City

Edgardo Rodriguez Julia

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• Since the publication of 'The Country Girls', Irish writer Edna O'Brien has been celebrated and maligned. This book situates her in Irish contexts tha... Lees meer

Chango, the Biggest Badass

Manuel Zapata Olivella

• Hardcover | Americas
• Ranging from Brazil to New England but centered in the Caribbean, where countless slaves once arrived from West Africa, this title conveys the breadth... Lees meer

Sex as a Political Condition

Carlos Nicolás Flores

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel is a raucous journey through political dangers that come in all shapes, cup sizes, and sexual identities-... Lees meer

Kafka's Leopards

Moacyr Scliar

• Hardcover | Engels | Americas
• in 1916, just before the russian revolution, Benjamin Kantarovitch, nicknamed "Mousy," has been asked by a sick friend to deliver a message to an agen... Lees meer

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

Jacobo Timerman

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• "At two in the morning of April 15, 1977, twenty armed men in civilian clothes arrested Jacobo Timerman, editor and publisher of a leading Buenos Aire... Lees meer

Mexico City Reader

• Hardcover | Engels | Americas
• Mexico City is one of Latin America's cultural capitals, and one of the most vibrant urban spaces in the world. The Mexico City Reader is an anthology... Lees meer

Tent of Miracles

Jorge Amado

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• The Wisconsin edition is not for sale in the British Commonwealth (excluding Canada), the Republic of Ireland, or South Africa. Lees meer

The Flight of the Condor

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• An anthology that reflects some of Colombia's finest literary talent. This collection of stories reveal the contradictions and complexities of the hum... Lees meer

The Inhabited Woman

Gioconda Belli

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• Lavinia is The Inhabited Woman : accomplished, independent, and fiercely modern. She is sheltered and self-involved, until the spirit of an Indian wom... Lees meer

Purple Land

W H Hudson

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• First published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist disting... Lees meer

Preso Sin Nombre, Celda Sin Numero

Jacobo Timerman

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• Like that earlier grouse hunter Aldo Leopold, Mark Parman takes to the woods when the aspens are smoky gold. Here, in an evocative almanac that chroni... Lees meer

Life in the Damn Tropics

David Unger

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• Set in strife-torn Guatemala City in the early 1980s, this sophisticated, quasi-comedic tale depicts the decline and near-fall of a prominent Guatemal... Lees meer

Letters That Never Came

Mauricio Rosencof

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three part... Lees meer

A Taste of Eternity

Gisèle Pineau

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• When Sybille arrives in Paris from Guadeloupe with her infant son, she encounters the extravagant and marvelous Lila. Sybille is young and black with ... Lees meer

Tieta

Jorge Amado

• Paperback | Engels | Americas
• These three ancient tragedies-- Trojan Women , Helen , and Hecuba --dramatize the tragic fates of women in the wake of war. Euripides (480-406 BC) inn... Lees meer

Vermont - Wisconsin / Addendum et Corrigendum

• Hardcover | Engels | Americas
• The seven-volume edition contains 446 constitutional texts, constitutional amendments, failed constitutions and draft constitutions from the United St... Lees meer

The Origin of Species and Other Poems

Ernesto Cardenal

• Hardcover | Engels | Americas
• Ernesto Cardenal, widely acknowledged as Latin America's greatest living poet, continues to craft works of striking beauty, as demonstrated in this co... Lees meer