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"Dolores del Río bursts to life in this vivid, well-researched portrayal. Her iconic feline elegance and brash spirit dominates every page, but it's her defiance to live life on her own terms that sets her apart—and what an extraordinary life she led."—C.W. Gortner, bestselling author of Marlene
1910, Mexico. As the country's revolution spreads, Dolores, the daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee her comfortable...
1910, Mexico. As the country's revolution spreads, Dolores, the daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee her comfortable...
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“Renaissance Spain and the Mediterranean [are] made vivid . . . brings to life the real world behind the fantastic exploits of the knight of La Mancha.” —The Wall Street Journal
The actual facts of Miguel de Cervantes’s life seem to be snatched from an epic tale: An impoverished and talented young poet nearly kills a man in a duel and is forced into exile. Later, he distinguishes...
The actual facts of Miguel de Cervantes’s life seem to be snatched from an epic tale: An impoverished and talented young poet nearly kills a man in a duel and is forced into exile. Later, he distinguishes...
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La ceguera de Edipo radicaba en la ignorancia fundamental que tenía de sí mismo y sus circunstancias. Actuaba bajo unas lógicas, pero la vida lo conducía mediante otras. Sin darse cuenta, el destino lo había puesto en situaciones que ni siquiera sospechó, era arrastrado y atrapado en sus peores demonios. Por más intentos racionales que pretendiera, era sometido por sus pulsiones e instintos que hacían parte de su ser desde siempre, esos mismos...
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Tres generaciones—la abuela, la madre y la hija-unidas en este relato que una de ellas, la menor, despliega como saldo de cuentas e indagación personal, pero también como reivindicación y reconocimiento de la condición de mujer.
Se trata debut litearario de la joven escritora Rafaela Lahore (1985), Premio de la Mejor Obra Literaria 2019 del Ministerio de las Cuturas y la Artes, en categoría novela inédita. El relato nos remite a la zona fronteriza...
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La Martinique sert de décor à ce roman dont l'histoire se déroule à la fin du XIXe siècle, époque de l'éruption de la Montagne Pelée. Ceci est un hommage au personnage central, à savoir le gouverneur Louis Mouttet, qui ne parvint pas à sauver de nombreuses vies lors de l'éruption volcanique, car ignoré du gouvernement en France. Il fut longtemps tenu pour responsable des conséquences désastreuses de la catastrophe de 1902.
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Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and the vanguard of the Post-Boom generation of Latin American literature.
How could we define a perfect day? Maybe it would be better to say: how could I narrate a perfect day?
Is that why I write a diary? To capture-or reread-one...
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A giant of contemporary Latin American literature, Argentine novelist Ricardo Piglia's secret magnum opus was a compilation of 327 notebooks that he composed over nearly six decades, in which he imagined himself as his literary alter ego, Emilio Renzi. A world-weary detective, Renzi stars in many of his creator's works, much like Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman. But the Renzi of these diaries is something more complex-a multilayered reconstruction...
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The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia's acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975-running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering the literary stars among whom he would soon take his place: Borges, Puig, Roa Bastos, Piñera.
"One writes," Ricardo Piglia asserts, only "in order to know literature." Spanning...
9) Occupation
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"This is one beautiful book."-Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer's conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father's sickness, and his wife's pregnancy. With impeccable prose, the author builds associations that go beyond the obvious, not only between glimpsing a...
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If I succeed in understanding who he was before I was born, perhaps I will be able to understand who I am now that he is dead... In this sprawling family saga stretching across Latin America, a son embarks on a journey to understand his complex relationship with his father and how it shaped the man he is today. Recalling Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits, the renowned journalist and...
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A writer resembling Zoé Valdés-a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter-is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora became his lover, muse, and ultimately, his victim. She became The Weeping Woman captured in his famous portrait, the mistress he betrayed...
12) Seeing Red
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This powerful, profound autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography intertwine in an intense, visceral, and caustic novel about the relation between the body, illness, science, and human relationships.
Lina Meruane (b. 1970), considered the best woman author of Chile today,...
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¿Cómo escribir un libro increíble a partir de sus debilidades personales?
Umbral o Bolaño, Camus o Proust, muchos otros, escribieron libros donde la enfermedad era protagonista, cierto. Pero la cuestión de fondo es de qué modo afronta el escritor el hecho de la enfermedad. ¿Cómo da cuenta de ella?, ¿de qué manera la transforma en relato?, ¿acaso desde el rencor de enfermo crónico?, ¿quizás amarrándose al poder terapéutico del humor?
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La biographie fictive et émouvante d'un grand acteur de la lutte ouvrière et de la solidarité
José Fontana est né le 28 octobre 1840 au Tessin, il est mort à Lisbonne le 2 septembre 1876.
Une vie relativement brève, remplie à ras bords: après avoir quitté le Tessin pour le Jura o il a appris le métier d'horloger, il est allé vivre à Lisbonne, la ville de sa mère o il est vraisemblablement arrivé après 1855. Selon un certain nombre...
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The Living Infinite is based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family's reign.
After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish court, her youth spent in exile, and a loveless marriage, Eulalia gladly departs Europe for the New World. In the company of Thomas Aragon, the son of her one-time wet nurse and a small-town bookseller with a thirst...
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In 2015, Benjamin Villegas traveled to Texas in an attempt to write the biography of a music group that could have changed the history of rock: ELPASO, a Chicano band from the U.S.-Mexico border with a punk sensibility, a long since-defunct crew, and little left to remember it by but a suitcase of fanzines and one-off recordings. This is the story of one of the many bands that will never appear in rock n' roll history books, but is at the core of...
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Une histoire d'immigration à la fin des années 50. Un chemin de vie, souvent difficile, parfois heureux, qui vous conduit des Pyrénées catalanes à la ville de Valence en Espagne, en faisant une halte sur l'île d'Ibiza, pour arriver enfin jusqu'à la petite ville d'Uzès, dans le sud de la France...au début des années 60.
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"A lush, sensuous, and original tale of family, love, and history, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath. Nadia Guerra's mother, Albis Torres, left when Nadia was just ten years old. Growing up, the proponents of revolution promised a better future. Now that she's an adult, Nadia finds that life in Havana hasn't quite matched its promise; instead it has stifled her rebellious and artistic desires. Each night she DJs a...
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