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Par John Le Carré. 2022
"Julian Lawndsley has left a high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small…
English seaside town. A few months later, he is approached by a Polish émigré with dangerous knowledge of Julian's family. Julian is soon approached by a spy chief." -- 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 NLSLa mujer de la escalera (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Policiaca #398)
Par Pedro A González Moreno. 2018
"A suicide and a mysterious murder serve as the starting point for this story in which two recent university graduates…
face a mission that will change their lives forever: to locate some ancient medieval theater books. Thus begins a thrilling search in which the characters will end up finding themselves and their own destiny, outlining at the same time the portrait of a bridge generation that struggled to find its own space in the Spain of the late seventies and early eighties. A gripping story of intrigue, of ambitions and grudges, of love and heartbreak, of frustrations and desires, where the murkiest and the noblest feelings intermingle and clash dramatically, always against the backdrop of the theatrical world, that metaliterary space in which, as in a game of mirrors, not everything is what it seems...." Translation provided by NLSLa librería del Señor Livingstone
Par Mónica Gutiérrez. 2020
"Agnes Martí is a young archaeologist from Barcelona who decides to move to London in search of a job opportunity.…
After several weeks without success, a sudden rainfall surprises her while she is taking a walk and she enters Moonlight Book. By chance, its owner, Edward Livingstone, is looking for an assistant and offers her the job. The young woman accepts and little by little she discovers the charm of this small bookstore. Until one day, when one of her most precious and oldest books disappears and police inspector John Lockewood enters the scene to take charge of the investigation and turn Agnes's life upside down." -- 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 NLSSudor
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2016
"Wildly piercing and corrosively funny, Sudor (Sweat) is an editor's raw look at the absurd and oftentimes dysfunctional inner workings…
of the literary world. When his run-of-the-mill existence is suddenly turned upside down by the arrival of a famous author and his spoiled, defiant son, Alf, a junior editor at a large publishing house, embarks on a whirlwind three days that will change his life forever. Taking a page from Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Sweat is a piercing look at the mad circus that are author book tours-lavish parties, larger-than-life expectations, explosive egos and a whole industry that subsists on catering to the intellectual elite. The author of Bad Vibes, a novel that pulverized every boundary of the post-Pinochet era, plunges readers head first into the gay underworld where feelings are relegated to a second tier in favor of a series of ephemeral and extreme sexual encounters courtesy of Grindr, the popular app that Alf, the novel's protagonist, uses just as often as his authors use him. Meanwhile Santiago, the city where it all unfolds, emerges as a rare and alluring presence. A masterfully crafted and electrifying novel, Sudor confirms Fuguet as one of the most relevant voices in Latin America today." -- Provided by the publisherLa 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 NLSTierra 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 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 NLSLa 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 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 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 LanguageEl laberinto de la soledad y otras obras (Penguin ediciones)
Par Octavio Paz. 1997
"Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character,…
and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio Paz' most famous work, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind the mask. Also included are Postscript, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, and Mexico and the United States, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America." -- GoodreadsEl 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 NLS