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1) Nostromo
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"Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard" is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia. Costaguana has a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare, but has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera. Charles Gould is a native...
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"This taut, atmospheric novel is an ode to the complicated heartbreak of loving what will forever be just out of reach." —Laura van den Berg, award-winning author of The Third Hotel
Claudio's apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and entwining stories...
Claudio's apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and entwining stories...
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A "captivating" novel from a Spanish literary star about the arrival of feral children to a tropical city in Argentina, and the quest to stop them from pulling the place into chaos (Boston Globe).
San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city-small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived.
No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first...
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In Mexico City, a young mother is writing a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. In Harlem, a translator is desperate to publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet. And in Philadelphia, Gilberto Owen recalls his friendship with Lorca, and the young woman he saw in the windows of passing trains. Valeria Luiselli's debut signals the arrival of a major international writer and an unexpected and necessary voice in contemporary...
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A long drive across Chile's Atacama desert, traversing "the worn-out puzzle" of a broken family - a young man's corrosive intimacy with his mother, the obtrusive cheer of his absentee father, his uncle's unexplained death - occupies the heart of this novel. Camanchaca is a low fog pushing in from the sea, its moisture sustaining a near-barren landscape. Camanchaca is the discretion that makes a lifelong grief possible. Sometimes, the silences are...
7) Strange Love
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An American tourist finds himself obsessed with a young Costa Rican woman in this novel by the author of Searching for Bobby Fischer and Deep Water Blues.
Narrated by a man vacationing in a remote fishing village on the spectacular Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Strange Love tells a story of disappointments, unusual desires, and the things people will do when their dreams haven't materialized in the ways they had hoped.
The man once imagined himself...
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A sudden catastrophe in Europe exposes the slow-motion destruction of a generation of Venezuelans and their struggle against repression.
The Lisbon Syndrome is the story of two catastrophes. A disaster annihilates a European capital, but few details filter through state media censorship in Caracas, home to many thousands of Portuguese.
Fernando runs a theater program for young people in the Caracas neighborhood of Colinas de Bello Monte, teaching...
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Este Libro nos acerca un puñado de historias que harán volar nuestra imaginación llevándonos desde una corte, pasando por un puerto, París, un potrero de barrio, el Japón durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, hasta el diván de un Psicólogo. Un desfile incesante de imágenes y metáforas puntuales en un vocabulario claro y conciso con finales inesperados. Un viaje atractivo dentro de un libro que no dejará de leer.
Alejandro Miguel Pereira Nació...
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In this first in The Salinas Trilogy, Nina Lucero discovers that blood guilt has its consequences as she fights her way to self reliance, escaping from the multicultural, Pentecostal confines of a rural upbringing in southern New Mexico. Whether in butchering prize farm animals for food, hunting deer in the nearby Manzano Mountains with her war-vet uncle, warding off the lecherous attacks of neighboring twin brothers, or protecting herself from combative...
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By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man-the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band-composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor. Alternating between the vocalist's impressionistic recollections and the editor's "corrections," an asynchronous story emerges, evoking the vocalist's childhood in southern Chile and telling of the rise and fall of the band that he grew up to lead, while...
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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?
Después...
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About The Book Dark passions, family secrets, twisted love, polyamory, betrayal, and pansexuality weave their way into a new novel by Canadian-American author Douglas Roff in his new novel Five Years in Her World: Secrets and Darkness. Following the tragic deaths of his parents in a fire which destroyed the family home and business, James McKenzie returns to the happiest place he knew as a boy growing up that wasn't located in Canada. After graduating...
14) Divergent Lives
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RJ and Adina enter the world as fraternal twins, one raised by old-world, controlling immigrants in El Barrio, the other sold into a religious home filled with lies and scorn. Both are sociopaths. One is a serial killer.Turns out, RJ's got a secret that enrages him with the flip of a switch. Adina uses her sexual power to dominate every man in her life. They are on a mysterious trajectory to cross paths in New York City, where the end of their lives...
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El don de Vorace hermana a Casanova con Rimbaud, por su genialidad, su provocación y su muerte temprana.
Se advierte en Casanova la gracia, el desparpajo, la propensión lúdica de un ángel con rasgos diabólicos, todo lo cual exime a su arte de las esperables convenciones del oficio.
El libro, abiertamente inverosímil, es de principio a fin una parodia y denota un esfuerzo imaginativo poco común. Es la deriva criminal de un hombre a quien la...
16) Ornamental
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A scientist recruits volunteers for the trial of a new recreational drug that exclusively affects women. Among them is "Number 4," who becomes emotionally involved with first the scientist and then his wife, a well-known visual artist in the midst of a creative crisis. The scientist is oblivious to the atrocities his new drug will bring to the city; his wife is oblivious to the superfluousness of the objects she has made her life's work exhibiting...
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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...
18) The bitch
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In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age "when women dry up," as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt...
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Quizas Ann Arbor no sea el mejor luego para olvidar su pasado...
Ann Arbor es una ciudad-frontera del Medio Oeste americano donde cada ano llega gente dispuesta a cambiar su suerte. Hasta alli llega una escritora de guias de viaje que no viaja. En Ann Arbor espera encontrar refugio contra un pasado que la atenaza. Pero Ann Arbor se encuentra en el corredor de los tornados americanos y los desastres medioambientales y las bajas temperaturas invernales...
20) All My Goodbyes
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A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in the southernmost region of Patagonia, she convinces herself she has found happiness, until she's caught up in the horrific murders that haunt her story.
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