Texas Pan American Literature in Translation Series – serie
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After-Dinner Conversation
The Diary of a Decadent
Häftad, 2005
316 kr
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Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, JosÉ AsunciÓn Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siÈcle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best …
Pillar of Salt
An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets
Inbunden, 2014
431 kr
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Written with exquisite sensitivity and wit, this memoir by one of Mexico’s foremost men of letters describes coming of age during the violence of the Mexican Revolution and “living dangerously” as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society.Salvador Novo (1904–1974) was a provocative …
First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix
Av Regina Rheda
Häftad, 2005
303 kr
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Regina Rheda is a contemporary award-winning Brazilian writer whose original voice and style have won her many admirers. First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix presents some of her finest and most representative work to an English-speaking readership. Stories from the Copan …
Potbellied Virgin
Häftad, 2006
218 kr
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In an unnamed town in the Ecuadorian Andes, a small wooden icon-La Virgen Pipona (the Potbellied Virgin)-conceals the documents that define the town's social history. That history recently has been dominated by the women of the Benavides family, a conservative clan and, not coincidentally, the …
And Let the Earth Tremble at Its Centers
Häftad, 2009
251 kr
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Professor Juan Manuel Barrientos prefers footsteps to footnotes. Fighting a hangover, he manages to keep his appointment to lead a group of students on a walking lecture among the historic buildings of downtown Mexico City. When the students fail to show up, however, he undertakes a solo tour that …
Selected Prose and Prose-Poems
Häftad, 2004
313 kr
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The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and …
