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Camelia la Texana
Par Diego Ramón Bravo. 2014
"This is a novel inspired by the main character in a well-known ballad by Los Tigres del Norte, a famous…
norteño band from Sinaloa, Mexico, which also inspired a TV series on the Telemundo network. It follows Camelia and her lover, Emilio, as they make enemies in the dark world of drug trafficking." -- Provided by NLSSeñales distantes (Narrativa (Almadía Ediciones))
Par Antonio Vásquez. 2021
"A young acolyte suffers a strange illness--or curse--due to which his body slowly takes on the texture of a rock;…
a Mexican tourist visits a small coastal town along with a young Japanese woman, where he will unexpectedly participate in an ancestral rite; a parrot mercilessly torments an office worker in love. The characters in the stories contained in Distant Signals seem to assure us that where the deepest human pains and obsessions exist, a door opens where the extraordinary takes place. -- Translation provided by NLSTrayéndolo todo de regreso a casa: relatos 1990-2020 (Narrativa hispánica (Alfaguara (Firm)))
Par Patricio Pron. 2021
"Argentine writer Patricio Pron began writing in 1990. A little more than twenty years later, El Cuervo has published a…
personal selection of his stories, one for each year of activity. Twenty stories, originally published in tiny editions that are now out of print, document the early years of creation and travel, travel and literature, of one of the most recognizable writers of contemporary Argentine literature. Like Bob Dylan, Patricio Pron brings his stories back to the place where he once conceived them and that was once his home." -- Translation provided by NLSSan Juan noir (Akashic noir series)
Par Mayra Santos-Febres. 2016
"Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set…
in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos, Ernesto Quiñonez, Mayra Santos-Febres, José Rabelo, Luis Negrón, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Ana María Fuster Lavín, Janette Becerra, Manolo Núñez Negrón, Tere Dávila, Edmaris Carazo, Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Charlie Vázquez, and Manuel A. Meléndez." -- GoodreadsTristes sombras
Par Lola Ancira. 2021
"In this book, the stories give voice to those who have been marginalized and condemned to live in the shadows…
of madness, nostalgia, loss, and despair. The characters, defeated by life itself, take refuge in the memory of what they had, in abandonment, expired promises and discouragement. The former psychiatric hospital "La Castañeda" and former prison "El Palacio de Lecumberri" are the spaces that harbor the ultimate destiny of each character and their inevitable metamorphosis into shadows." -- Translation provided by NLSLa noche caníbal (Letras mexicanas)
Par Luis Jorge Boone. 2011
"This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by…
their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their lives forcing them to reveal the hidden boundaries of human nature. These stories inhabit the limits between reality and madness, between ordinary occurrences and unexpected coincidences. It is at these crossroads where the world becomes most unsettling and we are forced to evaluate our perceptions. Paranoia, lack of faith, obsession, panic, and psychosis are some of the forces that control the destinies of these protagonists. Luis Jorge Boone's cleanly-architectured prose conjures the great voices of Latin American short fiction and delivers them with a 21st century sensibility. This is a collection full of striking philosophical observations, brilliant twists, and disquieting images." -- Amazon.com"Dominican literature has exploded, and for the better, with a diverse and unbound generation that writes from the inside out…
and from the outside in. This selection by Rita Indiana unquestionably proves it, by bringing together diasporic and national authors, and revealing the creative diversity of a Caribbean, cosmopolitan and, at the same time, unconventional gaze...." -- Translation provided by NLSSangre de Emanuel
Par Ted Dekker. 2011
"This story is for everyone--but not everyone is for this story. It is a dangerous tale of times past. A…
love story full of deep seduction. A story of terrible longing and bold sacrifice. Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what it should flee. Forgetting it once had a truer lover. With a kiss, evil will ravage body, soul, and mind. Yet there remains hope, because the heart knows no bounds. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow. Because the battle for the heart is always violently opposed. For those desperate to drink deep from this fountain of life, enter. But remember, not everyone is for this story." -- GoodreadsTierra fresca de su tumba (Candaya narrativa #72)
Par Giovanna Rivero. 2021
"Six tales of a dark beauty that throb with disturbing themes: the legitimacy of revenge, incest as survival, indigenous witchcraft…
versus Japanese wisdom, the body as a corpse we inhabit. Rivero's stories pierce the reader like a wound, but in the end also offer possibilities of love, justice and hope. Told with a fierce and fragile lyricism that probes the abysses of the human soul, in |Fresh Dirt from the Grave| Giovanna Rivero reworks the boundaries of the gothic to engage with pre-Columbian ritual, folk tales, sci-fi and eroticism." -- Provided by publisherUstedes 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 NLSEl 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 NLSLa sangre de Medusa: y otros cuentos marginales
Par José Emilio Pacheco. 2020
"The Blood of Medusa gathers stories written by José Emilio Pacheco from 1956 to 1984, scattered until now in magazines,…
newspapers and pamphlets that are no longer available. Works of precocious solidity the oldest and of persistent strength the most recent, these stories have pursued their author, like stubborn ghosts, until they obtained from him their final version and escaped from the limbo of ephemeral reading publications. The result is the difficult re-reading that the mature writer makes of the pages that marked the stages of his development as a storyteller (and also that of Latin American narrative in its manners and concerns of the last forty years): "although I have modified them completely, their primitive structure remains intact. We can change everything except our vision of the world and our syntax." The stories that make up The Blood of Medusa constitute a series of extremely varied texts, an exhibition of mastery and registers: from the Borgesian precision of the juvenile tales or the brilliant satires in the manner of the Latins or Swift, to the avant-garde "horror" toys, the acidic two-line mini-stories, the conjectural monologues inspired by political-politicians' events. Like everything written by Pacheco, these texts speak directly to the reader, with a radical intelligibility, to think, to feel, to know with him and also, most especially in this volume, to invite him to enjoyment, the pleasure of inventing, the festive complicity that is literature." -- Translation provided by NLSKentucky Club
Par Benjamin Alire Sáenz. 2014
"Collection of seven short stories exploring the concept of boundaries. In 'He Has Gone to Be with the Women,' Javier…
and Juan Carlos meet and develop a relationship neither is sure he wants." -- 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 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 NLSHacia 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." -- GoodreadsPor 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.comNuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq
Par Jorge Luis Borges. 2003
"Once again the two writers unites, under the pseudonym through which they had previously published "Six Problems for Don Isidro…
Parodi" and "Chronicles of Bustos Domecq", to produce a series of fantasies with the common denominator of absurd humor. Famously, the short story "The Monster's Party" is a harsh parody of the times when Juan Perón ruled Argentina." -- Goodreads