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1) Puro amor
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"Sandra Cisneros has a fondness for animals and this little gem of a story makes that abundantly clear. 'La casa azul,' the cobalt blue residence of Mister and Missus Rivera, overflows with hairless dogs, monkeys, a fawn, a 'passionate' Guacamaya macaw, tarantulas, an iguana, and rescues that resemble 'ancient Olmec pottery.' Missus loves the rescues most 'because their eyes were filled with grief.' She takes lavish care of her husband too, a famous...
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Juan Gallardo rises to the position of a torero from a humble background. His passion and courage for bull-fighting makes him a hero and determines his destiny. But is that all to Gallardo's life?
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"It was a number of years ago, not long after he had been given "the alternative" in the bull-ring of Madrid, that he came to lodge at a certain hotel on Alcalá Street where his hosts treated him as if he were one of the family, and the dining-room...
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Kirkus Best Books of 2018
"Barba is a master of the novella . . . A gorgeous, fully realized collection."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
Nothing is simple for the men and women in Andrés Barba's stories. As they go about their lives, they are each tested by a single, destructive obsession. A runner puts his marriage at risk while training for a marathon; a teenager can no longer stand the...
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La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades (más conocida como Lazarillo de Tormes) es una novela española anónima, escrita en primera persona y en estilo epistolar (como una sola y larga carta), cuyas ediciones conocidas más antiguas datan de 1554. En ella se cuenta de forma autobiográfica la vida de un niño, Lázaro de Tormes, en el siglo xvi, desde su nacimiento y mísera infancia hasta su boda, ya en la edad adulta. Es...
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Emilio Carlo Giuseppe Maria Salgarin (1862-1911) fue un escritor, marino y periodista italiano. Escribió principalmente novelas de aventuras ambientadas en los más variados lugares -como Malasia, el Océano Pacífico, el mar de las Antillas, la selva india, el desierto y la selva de África, el oeste de Estados Unidos, las selvas de Australia e incluso los mares árticos-. Creó personajes, tal vez el más conocido de ellos sean los piratas Sandokán...
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Los Episodios nacionales son una colección de cuarenta y seis novelas históricas escritas por Benito Pérez Galdós que fueron redactadas entre 1872 y 1912. Están divididas en cinco series y tratan la historia de España desde 1805 hasta 1880, aproximadamente. Sus argumentos insertan vivencias de personajes ficticios en la narración de los principales acontecimientos españoles del siglo xix, desde la guerra de la Independencia española (un capítulo...
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Fortunata y Jacinta es una novela del escritor español Benito Pérez Galdós publicada en 1887, dentro del ciclo de las Novelas españolas contemporáneas. Según la opinión mayoritaria de la crítica literaria, se trata de la mejor novela de su autor, y junto a La Regenta de Leopoldo Alas, una de las más populares y representativas del realismo literario español y de la novela española del siglo XIX. Situada en el Madrid de la segunda mitad...
9) The promise
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A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship has fallen overboard. Adrift at sea, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, she wonders what she might include in the story of her life-a repertoire of miracles, threats, and people parade tumultuously through her mind. Little by little, her imagination begins to commandeer her memories, escaping the strictures of...
10) Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015
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Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition.
With a broad geographic and linguistic sweep covering more than one hundred years of poetry, this book investigates the relationships between and among technology, aesthetics, and politics in Ibero-American experimental poetry. Eduardo Ledesma analyzes visual, concrete, kinetic,...
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Emilia Pardo-Bazán y de la Rúa-Figueroa, o simplemente Emilia Pardo Bazán, 1851-1921), condesa de Pardo Bazán, fue una noble y novelista, periodista, feminista, ensayista, crítica literaria, poetisa, dramaturga, traductora, editora, catedrática y conferenciante española introductora del naturalismo en España. Fue una precursora en sus ideas acerca de los derechos de las mujeres y el feminismo. Reivindicó la instrucción de las mujeres como...
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The Spanish-American War of 1898 seems to mark a turning point in both geopolitical and literary histories. The victorious American empire ascended and began its cultural domination of the globe in the twentieth century, while the once-mighty Spanish empire declined and became a minor state in the world republic of letters. But what if this narrative relies on several faulty assumptions, and what if key modernist figures in both America and Spain...
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