The Rainforest

Alicia Steimberg

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• For middle-aged Cecilia, the rainforest represents both solace and tenuously controlled danger, as she discovers when she follows the same path each d... Lees meer

Violations

• Hardcover | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• Forbidden love was a forbidden topic. Decorum was everything--in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of dec... Lees meer

Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer

Alicia Borinsky

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer takes place in the new "free market" era of personal choices and relations: a chaotic, sometimes hopeful, often comic ... Lees meer

Microfictions

Ana María Shua

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• 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 t... Lees meer

Call Me Magdalena

Alicia Steimberg

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• Erotic entanglements, startling revelations, a furtive intruder, even a possible murder? Not at all what the students of Mind Control class envisioned... Lees meer

In a State of Memory

Tununa Mercado

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• In a State of Memory is a novelistic memoir about exile, displacement, and return. Tununa Mercado explores the psychological and physical effects of t... Lees meer

Violations

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• Forbidden love was a forbidden topic. Decorum was everything--in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of dec... Lees meer

The Fourth World

Diamela Eltit

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• No one can be closer to another than a mother to her unborn child. No one, that is, except unborn twins jostling for space in the womb. In this concis... Lees meer

Underground River and Other Stories

Ines Arredondo

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• Inés Arredondo (1928-1989) published just three slim volumes of stories over twenty-three years, yet her reputation as a great writer, "a necessary wr... Lees meer

The Weight of Temptation

Ana María Shua

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• Dystopian fantasy, political parable, morality tale--however one reads it, this novel is first and foremost pure Ana María Shua, a work of fiction lik... Lees meer

Death as a Side Effect

Ana María Shua

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• 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... Lees meer

Industrial Park

Patricia Galvao (Pagu)

• Paperback | Engels | Latin American Women Writers
• A member of Brazil's avant-garde in its heyday. Patrícia Galvão (or to use her nickname, Pagu) was extraordinary. Not only was her work among the most... Lees meer

Microfictions

Ana Maria Shua

• Hardcover | Latin American Women Writers
• Whether writing of insomnia from a mosquito's point of view or showing us what happens after the princess kisses the frog, Ana Maria Shua, in these fl... Lees meer