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La montaña de las mariposas
Par Homero Aridjis. 2011
"The discovery of the poetic vocation joins the astonishment of a child before the spectacle of the arrival of the…
Monarch butterflies to his village, in Michoacán. An autobiographical memoir of childhood and youth, where Aridjis narrates his progressive awakening to nature, poetry, and eroticism, symbolized in the beauty and fragility of the butterfly." -- Translation provided by NLSLa ciudad de los libros prohibidos
Par Maribel Carvajal. 2016
"The City of Forbidden Books immerses the reader in an agile and entertaining reading through dizzying plots and an exquisite…
historical setting. A surprising literary debut that is hard to put down. Year 68 of our era: the peaceful Hispanic colony of Augusta Emerita is involved in surprising events that will test the faith and courage of its inhabitants. The City of Forbidden Books weaves a labyrinth of intrigues in which the characters will lose their souls in order to be reborn free and recover their ideals. In the pages of this book we witness the virulence of some deaths that will eventually bring to light some prophetic books that pursue powerful imperial groups willing to do anything to prevent their dissemination. The plot serves the author to show us the portrait of a fascinating society with its cults, its laws, its gods, its leisure or its image. A great love story, which runs through the novel, makes us reflect on the value of friendship, loyalty and duty." -- Translation provided by NLSLa expansión del universo
Par Ramiro Sanchiz. 2018
"One summer afternoon in Pinamar, Argentina, Federico decides to venture beyond the limit that his grandparents have imposed for his…
bike rides. This is how he discovers, among the trees, a dead man. It is the eighties, and the signs of the past violence are still there. Settled in the present, an adult Federico living in Barcelona will try to go back to that foundational event to understand what happened afterwards; why life unfolded the way it did and what was the meaning of it all: his grandfather's obsession, his mother's silence, his father's reticence and his uncle's mysterious behavior. Hovering over those targets in his story (and in History), Federico confronts a mystery that reappears in his photos and his memories." -- Translation provided by NLSEl viento distante (Biblioteca Era. Narrativa #44/14)
Par José Emilio Pacheco. 2011
"It has been said that a poem never stops being written. Neither does a short story, as confirmed by this…
new edition of José Emilio Pacheco's The Distant Wind. Originally published in 1963, corrected and augmented in 1969 and subject, since then, to the work and refinement that the prose of this meticulous writer imprints on his stories, this book continues its patient maturation even though it has been an essential part of our modern literary canon for more than thirty years. The reader of these fourteen stories will find, in addition to the loving inventory of the distant years of a country, the lively evocation of its protagonists: children capable of embodying the deepest sufferings, the most icy terrors; adolescents on fire whose light is that of everyday passions, the light that falls on all of us; characters that history does not record but whose steps along these pages leave an imprint of inevitability in the great events. All of them more prone to the small textures of pain than to the shadowless plainness of joy." -- Translation provided by NLSEl libro de la fiebre (Libros del tiempo (Madrid, Spain) #329)
Par Carmen Martín Gaite. 2016
"In 1949, Carmen Martín Gaite suffered an episode of very high fevers that introduced her into a labyrinth of delirium…
and dreamlike images. Out of that experience came |The Fever Book|, a poetic, surrealist text, in which she tried to rescue the fleeting visions she had had. Her enthusiasm for publishing what she had written turned into disillusionment when she realized that the people around her did not value her work positively, and the text remained unpublished almost in its entirety, kept in the "writer's workshop," as an example of fantastic writing in its infancy. In 2007, after Martín Gaite's death, this first essay of hers was published, in which we can glimpse many of the themes that the author from Salamanca developed in her later work: the symbolism of objects and places, the blurred boundaries between dream and reality, the construction of the self through memory, the reflection on writing.... All these motifs refer us to her narrative world, and allow the unconditional reader to peek into the beginnings of one of the great authors of the Spanish twentieth century." -- Translation provided by NLS; Spanish LanguageAunque nada perdure (Biblioteca breve (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par José Adiak Montoya. 2020
"While a generation of dictators remain in power and armed conflicts are the national hallmark, one of Nicaragua's most important…
plastic artists increases her presence within and outside of the borders. The eldest daughter of a Danish family settled in the country in the 1920s, Edith Gron developed a wonderful life at the stroke of a chisel; she took whatever material she had in front of her and shaped it into something resembling true life, firm and grounded. She was able to assimilate the entire Central American identity and pour her passion into a series of busts and sculptures that crossed borders that were once thought impassable. Touching and rich in images, Although Nothing Lasts is the story of an exodus that seemed almost impossible: from the icy sea of northern Europe to the American tropics, Edith's entire existence will be a struggle to survive. As a metaphor for earthquakes, she and her family will find the means to rebuild after landslides, accidents and illnesses, in a country in full effervescence and in search of their identity. José Adiak Montoya freezes a nation's dreams with those of an artist of universal transcendence, who in the stone found the support to make life last just a little longer." -- Translation provided by NLSCuando llora el cielo (Canción del mártir #02)
Par Ted Dekker. 2010
"At the close of World War II, a shell-shocked soldier, Jan Jovic, was forced to inflict a game of life…
and death on a peaceful Bosnian community. In a few short hours, this young man was confronted by more love-and hate-than most experience in a lifetime. Years later, Jan has become a world-renowned writer with widespread influence in the United States, his past buried deep in his memory. Until, at the most inopportune time, the game Jan witnessed comes back to haunt him . . . and unwittingly leads him to a beautiful broken woman caught in an underworld of crime. Jan must now defeat an evil rarely seen. But there is a price. One that even this war-scarred soldier can't imagine." -- Amazon.comLa raíz del mal (Trilogía del Malamor #02)
Par José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"Angela has decided to listen to her heart. She has decided to stay in Almahue to love Fabian without fear,…
without the curse of Malamor on her shoulders. Fabian will no longer have to resort to those concoctions that only momentarily relieved the terrible pains that the spell (now just a bad memory) provoked in the lovers. A miraculous recovery of the tree, that tree that every day dried up a little more, seems to announce that Almahue will finally be able to continue his story in peace and tranquility. However, a mysterious stranger appears in the picture and there is something about her that is tremendously disturbing. Perhaps the time has come for Rayen to take revenge. She is eager to take action.... Will she be able to destroy Almahue to keep the promise she made many, many years ago in front of the church where Ernesto betrayed his promise to love her until the end of time? Will she also end the love story between Angela and Fabian?" -- Translation provided by NLSEl árbol de la vida (Trilogía del Malamor #03)
Par José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"The third book of the Malamor Trilogy concludes the stories of Angela, Rayen and the peculiar village of Almahue and…
its hapless inhabitants, condemned to suffer from the curse of Malamor. With the village destroyed by a devastating earthquake and Fabián at the bottom of the earth, Ángela will go underground because she has decided that, although her life will be spent trying to rescue her lover from the bottom of the earth, she will never again allow disgrace or misfortune to separate them. Perhaps times have changed and that tree in the center of Almahue's square, a symbol of bad love, now lies as a corpse of branches and roots as dry as the sands of a desert. That can only herald a transformation, the end of an era. The time has also come for explanations, and Rosa will reveal something of that past that she jealously guards: a new legend. And Angela will have to find the strength to confront Rayén and the Decapitator in a journey through time and Chilean geography." -- Translation provided by NLSMalaluna (Trilogía del Malamor #0.5)
Par José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"They say that all legends have a beginning. And the fateful legend of Malaluna is about Rose and Rayén, two…
sisters who long ago unknowingly started a story filled with passion and death.... The prequel to the Malamor Trilogy has arrived: a novel of fantasy and hope. With totally opposite personalities, each one of these sisters journeys down paths and rabbit holes to the ends of the earth in search of a place to live, a place they only arrive at after a journey that takes them centuries to complete. They also say that all myths are like a tree of life, because their branches and fruit indelibly transform those who dare to come close. Will Rose and Rayén change the path of their own destiny? Will they be able to survive in that world where the sun and moon are the root of the evil that afflicts them?" -- GoodreadsHacia el fin del mundo (Trilogía del Malamor #01)
Par José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"A captivating story bound to leave you breathless from internationally acclaimed author Jose Ignacio Valenzuela. When Angela receives an eerie…
text message from her estranged, best-friend Patricia, her heart stops. Something is off and Angela knows it. She quickly embarks on a biting quest to Almahue, a small town in the Chilean Patagonia, which, according to the Malamor Legend, is cursed to live without love or face death. Deception and mystery unfold, as true love leaves Angela defying the legend she once brushed off and fighting alongside the entire town for their own lives." -- GoodreadsFludd
Par Hilary Mantel. 2018
"Full of dry wit, compassionate characterisations and cutting insight, Fludd is a brilliant gem of a book, and one of…
Hilary Mantel's most original works. Fetherhoughton is a dreary town in 1950s northern England. Father Angwin has lost his faith. Sister Philomena strains against convent life. The inhabitants of the town go about their lives in a haze. Then a stranger appears, bringing with him the hint of something new. But who is Fludd? An angel come to shake the dwellers from their stupor, or is he the devil himself, a wanderer of the darkest places in the human heart?" -- Provided by publisherEl caso de la dama zurda (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #02)
Par Nancy Springer. 2018
"London, 1889. Eluding her brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola sets up her own detective agency in London under…
an assumed name. Using many disguises and costumes, Enola investigates the disappearance of sixteen-year-old Lady Cecily, who may have eloped." -- Provided by NLSPor favor, rebobinar
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2012
"Connecting directly with Generation Ñ, the second novel by Fuguet runs at a breakneck speed. It sometimes feels more like…
a video clip than a conventional novel. Fuguet tells stories with a common background of adolescence, of sex, drugs, and rock n roll. At the high speed that this novel is narrated, it questions the present from the perspective of diverse protagonists--men and women living a doubtful and strange modernity; in this sense, |Please, Rewind| is a great chronicle of our times." -- Amazon.comLo que no aprendí
Par Margarita García Robayo. 2014
|What I Didn't Learn| can be read as a novel of initiation in which eleven-year-old Caty is dazzled by the…
figure of two men: her father, who hides a secret that only seems to reveal itself to her, and Aníbal, the neighbor's hippie son whom she meets in an abandoned house. But also, this moving and disturbing tale speaks of how individual and family memory is constructed; when faced with the imminent extinction of memories, one reflects on the winding territory of childhood, on the ambiguity of the common past." -- Translation provided by NLSLa Bomba de San José
Par Ana García Bergua. 2013
"In this fun and joyous novel Ana García Bergua humorously evokes Mexico City in the 1960s: a daring and naive…
city, where poets work in brand-new advertising agencies and painters no longer want to paint murals and wives no longer want to be obedient, and where the creative energy is such that even a relative of Mr. President aspires to create a film masterpiece, with the scintillating presence of the Costa Rican leading lady known as 'La Bomba de San José'." -- Translation provided by NLSLennon bajo el sol (Colección Andanzas)
Par José Adiak Montoya. 2017
"On Monday, December 8, 1980, John Lennon, the famous Nicaraguan musician and activist and former member of the pop/rock band…
known as The Beatles, died outside his home in the city of Managua after being shot five times by an unbalanced fanatic. Three months earlier the dictator Anastasio Somoza, exiled in Paraguay, had been ambushed and assassinated by an Argentine guerrilla commando. The one was an oppressor. The other was a pacifist. According to the official History there is no relation between the two facts--which perhaps are not even entirely true--, but according to the other History, the literary one, the one that narrates the man not as he was, but as he could have been, there was more than one crossing between both characters. Written with great intelligence by one of the most brilliant authors of his generation, |Lennon under the Sun| is a delightful uchronia that starts from the idea that the famous quartet emerged from Central America and not from Liverpool. The geography changes, the fame remains; the causes change but not the commitment, and in this and all universes the struggle for peace is best accompanied by Lennon's music." -- Translation provided by NLSTiempos revueltos
Par Vionette G Negretti. 2010
"This bestseller in Puerto Rico is the complete story of the only revolution against the United States, told from the…
perspective of Comandante Elio Torresola, who led the rebel forces to victory during El Grito de Jayuya. In 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists stunned the world when they succeeded in destroying the international image of the United States as the 'Champion of Democracy' by declaring the Republic of Puerto Rico and extending the reach of the rebellion into the heartland of the United States through a direct attack on President Truman. |Times of Upheaval| is the product of a three-year investigation by a journalist who delved into personal and official documents, including the FBI's so-called Secret Files on Puerto Rico, newspapers, books and theses at the University of Puerto Rico, and interviews with witnesses to the events, as well as with the revolutionaries and their families." -- Translation provided by NLSDinosaurios al atardecer (Magic tree house series. Spanish #01)
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 2002
"Eight-and-a-half-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister Annie find a magic tree house in the woods near their home. Climbing inside,…
they are whisked back to the prehistoric time of dinosaurs. But how will they return to their own time?" -- Provided by NLSLa noche de los ninjas (Magic tree house series. Spanish #05)
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 2004
"When Jack and Annie are whisked away by the magic tree house to hundreds-of-years-ago Japan, they meet a ninja master…
in a hidden cave. They must practice being ninjas themselves to return home." -- Provided by NLS