Conjuring slavery and witchcraft, and with bewitching powers all its own, Counternarratives continually spins history — and storytelling — on its head.
Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents,...
One more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature
Roberto Bolaño’s boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into...
Sam Hunter, a yuppie salesman who has everything he needs except the beautiful Calliope's love, confronts Coyote, the Indian trickster god, and his own forgotten and buried life as Samson Hunts Alone, a native American...
Era una ciudad sorprendente que, como un ser prehistórico, parecía haber surgido bruscamente en el valle en una noche de invierno para escalar penosamente la falda de la montaña. Todo en ella era viejo y pétreo, desde las calles...
Era una ciudad sorprendente que, como un ser prehistórico, parecía haber surgido bruscamente en el valle en una noche de invierno para escalar penosamente la falda de la montaña. Todo en ella era viejo y pétreo, desde las calles...
Crónica de una muerte anunciada, novela corta publicada en 1981, es una de Las obras más conocidas y apreciadas de García Márquez. Relata en forma de reconstrucción casi periodística el asesinato de Santiago Nasar a...
Premio Editorial Planeta
Esta novela obtuvo el Premio Editorial Planeta 1984, concedido por el siguiente, jurado: Ricardo Fernández de la Reguera, José Manuel Lara, Antonio Prieto, Carlos Pujol y José María Valverde.
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"McClanahan's prose is miasmic, dizzying, repetitive. A rushing river of words that reflects the chaos and humanity of the place from which he hails. [McClanahan] aims to lasso the moon… He is not a writer of half-measures. The man has purpose....
The Carson dynasty rules the ski-resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race — a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn,...
When New Yorker Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and quality time with the man she hopes to marry. But Nick has failed to give his girlfriend a few key details....