Americas – serie
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23 produkter
Purple Land
Av W.H. Hudson
Häftad, 2002
284 kr
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This is the exuberant, often wryly comic, first-person account of a young Englishman's imprudent adventures, set against a background of political strife in 19th-century Uruguay.
Tent of Miracles
Av Jorge Amado
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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Set in a Brazilian locale, this is the story of Pedro Archanjo, beloved rogue and fierce activist for social justice, who becomes a posthumous hero when an American intellect ""discovers"" his writings. The story flits between Archanjo's lifetime and that of the American professor decades later.
Tieta
Av Jorge Amado
Häftad, 2003
333 kr
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Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after twenty-six years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms. But Tieta is forced to reveal her true identity in order to save the town's beautiful beaches from ugly …
Preso Sin Nombre, Celda Sin Numero
Häftad, 2004
232 kr
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A classic of world literature back in print in a Spanish-language edition.Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.
Life in the Damn Tropics
A Novel
Av David Unger
Häftad, 2004
203 kr
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Set in strife-torn Guatemala City in the early 1980s, this sophisticated, quasi-comedic tale depicts the decline and near-fall of a prominent Guatemalan Jewish family.
Pan-American Life
Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee
Häftad, 2004
292 kr
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The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist and rights activist, and, above all, a Pan-Americanist. During the twentieth century, she helped shape the literary and social landscapes of the Americas. This is the first biography of her remarkable life …
San Juan
Memoir of a City
Av Edgardo Rodriguez Julia, Peter Grandbois m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
236 kr
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San Juan: Memoir of a City conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodriguez Julia. No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its …
Bonjour Gene
A Novel
Av J. A. Marzán
Häftad, 2013
235 kr
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Approaching midlife, after rising to comfortable suburban life, Edgar Bonjour becomes involved with a drug-trafficking Puerto Rican motorcycle gang from his old neighbourhood and is brought down by an affair with a woman in the gang. News of his murder leads to introspection among other members of …
Inhabited Woman
A Novel
Häftad, 2004
382 kr
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Lavinia is accomplished, independent, and fiercely modern. She is also sheltered and self-involved, until the spirit of an Indian woman warrior enters her being. Then she dares to join a revolutionary movement against a violent dictator and finds the courage to act.
Letters That Never Came
Häftad, 2014
283 kr
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Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof’s life growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants and, later, his twelve-year imprisonment during …
Taste of Eternity
A Novel
Häftad, 2014
317 kr
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When Sybille arrives in Paris from Guadeloupe with her infant son, she encounters the extravagant and marvellous Lila. Sybille is young and black with her life still ahead of her; an ex-actress, Lila is white and seventy years old. Despite their differences, the women become inseparable.Haunted by …
Centaur in the Garden
Häftad, 2003
233 kr
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At the centre of this magical realism novel is Guedali Tartakowsky, a Jewish centaur born into a family of Russian immigrants in Rio Grande do Sul. The author pushes the tragic destiny of Tartakowsky through an infusion of comedy.
San Juan
Memoir of a City
Av University of Wisconsin Press, Peter Grandbois
Inbunden, 2007
551 kr
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San Juan: Memoir of a City conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodriguez Julia. No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its …
Golpes Bajos/Low Blows
Instantaneas/Snapshots
Inbunden, 2007
330 kr
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In these short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages), Alicia Borinsky provides unique glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and tango dancers, politicians and torturers, triumphant divas and discarded …
Origin of Species and Other Poems
Inbunden, 2011
281 kr
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Ernesto Cardenal, widely acknowledged as Latin America's greatest living poet, continues to craft works of striking beauty, as demonstrated in this collection’s title poem, an exquisite meditation on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Among the twenty new poems included here are many appearing …
Kafka's Leopards
Inbunden, 2011
345 kr
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in 1916, just before the russian revolution, Benjamin Kantarovitch, nicknamed "Mousy," has been asked by a sick friend to deliver a message to an agent in Prague. Believing he was undertaking an important mission under direct orders by Leon Trotsky, Mousy has left his shtetl near Odessa and …
Daughter of Silence
Inbunden, 2012
265 kr
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Silence is a tradition among the women of Rita’s family, so it is no wonder that she must interpret for herself what her mother has left unsaid about the horrors of the Terezin concentration camp. But Rita faces a silence of her own: a Peronist militant in 1980s Argentina, she has been incarcerated …
Mariposa’s Song
A Novel
Inbunden, 2012
329 kr
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Pretty, twenty-year-old Mariposa has entered the U.S. from Honduras by way of Nuevo Laredo, without documentation. She now serves drinks and woos customers as a B-girl—sort of a dime-a-dance arrangement—in a shabby night-club on the east side of Austin, Texas. Rough work, it's at least giving her a …
Unlucky Lucky Tales
Inbunden, 2012
345 kr
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Inventive, disconcerting, and hilarious, Daniel Grandbois’s present-day fables call to mind Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories as readily as they do Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, Rikki Ducornet's Butcher's Tales, and Woody Allen's most literary writings. Braced on the shoulders of the fabulists, …
Mariposa's Song
A Novel
Häftad, 2013
281 kr
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Pretty, twenty-year-old Mariposa has entered the U.S. from Honduras by way of Nuevo Laredo, without documentation. She now serves drinks and woos customers as a B-girl, 'sort of a dime-a-dance arrangement' in a shabby nightclub on the east side of Austin, Texas. Rough work, it's at least giving her …
Brothers Corona
A Novel
Inbunden, 2014
281 kr
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The Brothers Corona is a novel that unfolds like a Sam Shepard story made into a Wim Wenders road movie. It is the first Mexican detective novel that reflects rural Mexican life and culture, showcasing the splendour of its customs and traditions.The novel unfolds as two revolving stories that …
Dreaming of the Delta
Av Perla Suez
Häftad, 2014
313 kr
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With Dreaming of the Delta, Perla Suez joins the ranks of other prominent Argentine writers who have incorporated the horrors of the violent period of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional. Highly experimental, this novel is a tale of secrecy, betrayal, and violence that reflects on a personal …
