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El hombre que movía las nubes: memorias
Par Ingrid Rojas Contreras. 2022
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in…
a house bustling with her mother's fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called "the secrets": the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit "the secrets," Rojas Contreras' mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a glass of water. This legacy had always felt like it belonged to her mother and grandfather, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that left her with amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family was excited to tell her that this had happened before: Decades ago Mami had taken a fall that left her with amnesia, too. And when she recovered, she had gained access to "the secrets." In 2012, spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, and her own powerful urge to relearn her family history in the aftermath of her memory loss, Rojas Contreras joins her mother on a journey to Colombia to disinter Nono's remains. With Mami as her unpredictable, stubborn, and often amusing guide, Rojas Contreras traces her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her mestizo family into two camps: those who believe "the secrets" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse." -- Amazon.com"For the first time, music legend Rudy Pérez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to…
composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage. Named the most successful Latin songwriter in history, Rudy Pérez is the creator behind some of the bestselling records of Beyoncé, Julio Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, and IL Divo. In his one-of-a-kind memoir, Rudy tells about his childhood in Cuba and the heart-gripping visits to his father in prison during the height of the communist revolution. Tracing his family's perilous escape on one of the last Freedom Flights to America, Rudy opens up about the years of poverty and growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood. These memories contrast with tender moments of dancing to the stereo with his siblings, nodding along to his mother's classical favorites, and swaying to blues melodies with his father. At a young age, Rudy tried his hand at recreating the music he loved, and his talent led him to an unprecedented career with over 300 hit songs. With years of hard work, ceaseless creativity, and a strong faith, Rudy was the first Latin music artist to win Billboard Producer of the Decade. Looking back over his five-time Grammy winning legacy, Rudy shares little-known stories of faith and behind-the-scenes details of working with stars like Fergie, Jaci Velasquez, Michael Bolton, Simon Cowell, and Sam Moore." -- GoodreadsBeso: Ella Te Roba Más Que El Corazón
Par Ted Dekker. 2010
"Austin, Texas. Six weeks after a car accident leaves her in a coma, twenty-eight-year-old Shauna wakes up with amnesia. Her…
father, Senator Landon McAllister, blames her for the accident, which also severely injured her beloved brother Rudy. But Shauna begins to doubt she can trust what she's being told." -- Provided by NLSEl espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia
Par Patricio Pron. 2011
"A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say good-bye to his dying father. In his…
parents' house, he finds a cache of documents--articles, maps, photographs--and unwittingly begins to unearth his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man. Suddenly he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of Argentina's dark political past and with the long-hidden memories of his family's underground resistance against an oppressive military regime. As the fragments of the narrator's investigation fall into place--revealing not only a part of his father's life he had tried to forget but also the legacy of an entire generation--|My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain| tells a completely original story of family and remembrance. It is an audacious accomplishment by an internationally acclaimed voice poised to garner equal acclaim in America." -- GoodreadsReina
Par Elizabeth Duval. 2020
"As a student of Modern Philosophy and Literature in Paris, the writer and activist Elizabeth Duval (Alcalá de Henares, 2000)…
starts a diary that inevitably ends up transforming her reality, mediated by a kind of fictional conception of her own existence. With an exceptional talent to make her prose converse with the history of ideas, thus proposing an interesting device for intellectual stimulation, throughout Queen numerous issues circulate that zigzag between public and private spheres. Among its themes, the following stand out: university life as an initiation to maturity, politics under late capitalism, and post-adolescent love from a perspective that goes beyond all our expectations on the subject and sublimates it in a reflection on affections and desire as universal as radically new." -- Provided by publisherElena sabe
Par Claudia Piñeiro. 2015
"After Rita is found dead in the bell tower of the church she used to attend, the official investigation into…
the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society." -- GoodreadsNosotros caminamos en sueños
Par Patricio Pron. 2014
"A stupid war, an invisible enemy, confused governors, a battlefield, the Falkland Islands, and a narrator that unveils the truths…
and lies behind all this with freshness and irony. «Do not judge the war in terms of beauty. In fact, it is like people: it has to be beautiful inside, because it is too ugly on the outside». A bomb remains in mid air and resists falling. Exhausted and hungry soldiers look up and they wonder if all wars are like that. They do not know who the enemy is or where he is, but they keep walking in dreams, like sleepwalkers, fighting for a piece of land that does not belong to anyone, defending a country that floats on a subsoil of misery and corruption. There is nothing normal or predictable in |We Walk in Dreams|, the edited and extended version of the novel where Patricio Pron told «not what really happened or could have happened, but what happened indeed, although only in the childish imagination» of the author, who was six years old when the war between Argentina and Great Britain started. |We Walk in Dreams| talks about that confrontation, but the true theme of this comic novel is what happens when people kill on behalf of nationalism, what happens when common sense leaves room for cowardice and stupidity disguised as patriotism. Pron's view is a satire of all wars, a story simultaneously inhabited by the spirits of Samuel Beckett, César Aira, Martin Amis and Fogwill that only take the reader as prisoner." -- Provided by publisherSara
Par Sergio Ramírez. 2015
"A biblical story, that of Sarah and Abraham, told from her perspective: the woman behind the patriarch. Sara is a…
well-documented, credible novel, written with humor and inventiveness, presenting the human side of biblical characters. Sara is the narration of a pilgrimage through hostile kingdoms and inhospitable lands, while complying with the arbitrary indications transmitted to Abraham by Iahweh or "the Magician," a multiform being who does not seem to like laughter. While camped in the vicinity of the Salt Lake, near Sodom and Gomorrah, three young men appear before the couple to announce that the infertile and elderly Sarah will give birth to a son who will make Abraham the offspring of countless generations. Although generation after generation believed this to be a story starring men, it is Sarah, with her irony, humor, incredulity, tenacity, and ability to question divine designs, who endows it with authenticity." -- Translation provided by NLSIn vitro (Ensayo (Editorial Almadía))
Par Isabel Zapata. 2021
"In vitro is a pregnancy essay. On the page, the writing gropes its way through unexplored territory. In the laboratory,…
under the watchful eye of the microscope, fertilization is also rehearsed. Pregnancy and writing take place on that threshold of possibilities. In this book, Isabel Zapata shines a light--or a lens--on an experience that seems to exist in a tiny darkness. While life makes its way in a Petri dish, the author poses questions that reveal the rawness of a treatment marked by uncertainty: How is the desire to be a mother articulated? Is there really a resolved mourning? With what voice does what we keep silent speak? Who breaks in childbirth? In In vitro the hidden is revealed as a daughter begins to take shape." -- Translation provided by NLSUstedes brillan en lo oscuro (Voces (Madrid, Spain). Literatura #329)
Par Liliana Colanzi Serrate. 2022
"Liliana Colanzi's stories explore different ways of narrating time, such as the geological journey in a cave, the search for…
the historical roots of rubber extraction in the ruins of an Amazonian village, or the dislocated temporality of a religious colony in which her characters long to get rid of the prohibitions that strand them in the past. In this book, radiation is an invisible agent that affects young people living near an Andean nuclear power plant and scrap collectors in a Brazilian city." -- Translation provided by NLSGastronomía e imperio: la cocina en la historia del mundo (Sección de obras de historia)
Par Rachel Laudan. 2020
"Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.…
Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement." -- GoodreadsCauterio
Par Lucía Lijtmaer. 2022
"It is the summer of 2014. A young woman who has just been abandoned by her partner flees from Barcelona…
to Madrid with a secret and the conviction that the apocalypse is approaching. Four centuries earlier, another woman, Deborah Moody--who went down in history as "the most dangerous woman in the world"--is forced to emigrate to the North American colonies carrying another, very different secret. What do these two women have in common? Why have they decided to walk away from what they know and start anew?" -- Translation provided by NLSTercer mundo
Par Pedro Cabiya. 2019
"Orishas, saints, luases, demons and angels frolic in a fantastic Puerto Rico that only the fertile imagination of Pedro Cabiya…
could have conceived. Different ministries of the multiverse's administrative bureaucracy compete to recover the valuable extraterrestrial contraband abandoned in Santurce, capital of the Borikwa Republic.... But stealing the loot won't be as easy as they think. Political satire and cosmic parody combine in a web of espionage and action where the great questions of existence share space with the most profane humor, producing a novel that resists classification within the known genres, announcing a new one. Prequel to his immensely popular novel |Trance|, |Third World| promises, like its predecessor, a reading that is impossible to interrupt." -- Translation provided by NLSDemasiado no es suficiente (Max Lomas #03)
Par Martín Casariego. 2022
"After a few years with more shadows than lights between Colombia, Mexico and Iraq, Max returns to Madrid in 2004.…
In a bar, the city and the memory of Elsa come crashing down on him when he discovers, among his bottles, the sculpture of Bastet that adorned El Gato Azul. There he meets Robocop, a former companion from his time as a bodyguard in the Basque Country, and now under the orders of SK, an unscrupulous businessman who will offer him an astronomical sum to risk his life to rescue his daughter Sibila, who has fallen into the hands of the ruthless Bulgarian mafia. But this has only just begun...." -- Translation provided by NLSMemorias de una infamia
Par Lydia Cacho. 2014
"In 2005, after publishing her book The Demons of Eden - where she denounced the very powerful men behind the…
a Mexican child pornography ring - Lydia Cacho became a target. Exactly eight months after the publication of the book, one morning as she was making her way to work, Lydia was apprehended by the police from the neighboring state of Puebla, and taken into custody during a nightmarish 24 hours during which she was tortured, intimidated and abused. In this chilling memoir, comparable to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, Lydia tells her story and exposes the horrific ways in which women - and young girls in particular - are abused then disposed of, while an oftentimes corrupt government simply sits and watches." -- GoodreadsA sangre y fuego con Pancho Villa (Vida y pensamiento de Mexico)
Par Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola. 1988
El próximo año en la Habana
Par Chanel Cleeton. 2020
"When her grandmother Elisa Perez dies, Marisol Ferrera--who grew up on Elisa's romanticized tales of Cuba--travels to Havana to learn…
more. Meanwhile, in 1958, nineteen-year-old Elisa has lived a sheltered life, but she falls in love with a passionate revolutionary. And as Marisol discovers these family secrets, she, too, falls in love." -- Provided by NLSEl juego sigue sin mí (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) #300)
Par Martín Casariego. 2015
"Ismael remembers the time when, at thirteen years old, his parents hired Rai, a boy five years older than him,…
to tutor him. After an unproductive first session, they made a pact: the student would study on his own and the teacher would talk to him about books, movies, music, life.... Also about Samuel, a young man who wrote to schedule a meeting with his ex-girlfriend, with the threat that if she did not show up he would commit suicide. With this starting point, Martín Casariego has written a novel of initiation, a novel about the passage from adolescence to maturity; about the family and the new forms of relationships between young people; about the intensity of such a decisive stage in life; about the weight of existence and how to alleviate it. A story marked by shadows, doubts and secrets, in which the white whale the narrator has been running from will end up showing up unexpectedly years later, changing everything and prompting him to rethink what happened." -- Translation provided by NLSLa noche en la Zona M (A través del espejo)
Par Alberto Chimal. 2019
"In a futuristic dystopian world, civilization as we know it has fallen, even Mexico City, which has been divided into…
a set of kingdoms that maintain a fragile peace and try to survive by taking advantage of leftover technology from another era. In the kingdom of the Center lives Sita, a teenager who, along with her grandmother Lucina, is in charge of maintaining communications at the Fort, the local chief's base. Both live with Celeste: the consciousness of a woman who knew the ancient times and is now stored in a computer. When Sita learns of their plans for her, she decides to make an escape to a better place, but along the way she will encounter dangerous threats from which no one has ever escaped alive." -- Translation provided by NLSLos dos lados (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Serie policiaca #493)
Par Teresa Cardona. 2022
"The granite floor burns and only the chirping of cicadas disturbs the peaceful and familiar summer of San Lorenzo de…
El Escorial. Its inhabitants, accustomed to the harshness of the mountains, complain about the heat wave, sheltering in the shade of the ancient walls of the monastery. The heat, however, has not accelerated the death of the man who, handcuffed in the cool boiler room of a Herrerian house among the pines of Mount Abantos, appears to have died from dehydration, with his eyes fixed on a bottle of water hanging from the ceiling at eye level. Lieutenant Karen Blecker, recently arrived in Spain after spending most of her career working for Europol, and a certain Master Sergeant Cano will begin to clarify the identity of the victim, whom no one in the area seems to know. But as the investigation progresses, the obvious parallels to a crime committed two decades earlier will also force them to dig into the painful years of terrorism and the sharp edges that the truth always presents when examined from both sides...." -- Translation provided by NLS