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  • Verdant Inferno/A Scabby Black Brazilian

    by Alberto Rangel, Jean-Christophe Goddard ...
    A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy, attacking the decolonial question with poetic ferocity.A classic of Brazilian literature is twinned with an overheated tract in which tropical delirium swallows up Western philosophy. Both attack the decolonial question with poetic ferocity, ignited by the moment when ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    by José Saramago ...
    Translated by Giovanni Pontiero ...
    A "marvelously amusing" political fable in which part of the European continent breaks off and drifts away on its own ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).A Nobel Prize winner who has been called "the García Márquez of Portugal" ( New Statesman) chronicles world events on a human scale in this exhilarating allegorical novel.One day, quite inexplicably, the Iberian Peninsula simply breaks free from ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Log from the Sea of Cortez

    by John Steinbeck ...
    In the waters of the Gulf of California, John Steinbeck and biologist Ed Ricketts embarked on an awe-inspiring journey of science, philosophy, and adventure.In the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck ... Read more

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  • The Motorcycle Diaries

    Notes on a Latin American Journey

    by Ernesto Che Guevara ...
    Series series The Che Guevara Library
    A New York Times Bestseller, now with ith a new introduction by The Motorcyle Diaries filmmaker Walter Salles, and featuring 24 pages of photos taken by Che."A journey, a number of journeys. Ernesto Guevara in search of adventure, Ernesto Guevara in search of America, Ernesto Guevara in search of Che. On this journey, solitude found solidarity. 'I' turned into 'we'." —Eduardo Galeano"All this ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Storyteller

    A Novel

    by Mario Vargas Llosa ...
    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    From the Nobel Prize-winning author. "With enormous skill and formal grace, Vargas Llosa weaves through the mystery surrounding the fate of Saul Zuratas." — TimeAt a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man . . . that the storyteller is not an Indian ... Read more

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  • Tristes Tropiques

    by Claude Levi-Strauss ...
    Translated by John Weightman, Doreen Weightman ...
    "A magical masterpiece."-Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression." ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Troublesome Offspring Of Cardinal Guzman

    by Louis de Bernieres ...
    Series Book 3 - Latin American Trilogy
    While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment.But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre of all ... Read more

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  • Isla Negra

    by Clark M. Zlotchew, Maria Jacketti, Pablo Neruda, Dennis Maloney ...
    Series series White Pine Poetry Prize
    Few writers are as integrally bound to a place as Pablo Neruda was to the landscape of Isla Negra on Chile’s coast. From his arrival there in the late 1930s to his death in 1973, Neruda captured Isla Negra in images fundamental to an understanding of his work. It was, according to Martin Espada, at Isla Negra where Neruda "in the company of his muse, walked alongside the source of his most lyrical ... Read more

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  • Sea of Cortez

    A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research

    by John Steinbeck, Edward F. Ricketts ...
    The collaboration of two friends—one a novelist, one a marine biologist—produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man’s dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will ... Read more

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  • Voices of the Old Sea

    by Norman Lewis ...
    In the late 1940s, Norman Lewis settled in a remote fishing village on what is now the Costa Brava, relishing a society where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and made frugal ends meet. Over the course of three years he watches with sorrow and affection as the villagers ... Read more

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  • The Lost Steps

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksThe best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter

    by César Aira, Roberto Bolaño ...
    Translated by Chris Andrews ...
    An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johan Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD