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Dalkey Archive Essentials eBook Series

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  • Family of Pascual Duarte

    Translated by Anthony Kerrigan ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Confined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality, Nobel laureate Camilo José Cela crafts a powerful meditation on cruelty and anomie.The Family of Pascual Duarte follows his upbringing in the poor Spanish province of Extremadura to his ... Read more

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  • I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

    A Novel

    by Irene Solà ...
    Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are ... Read more

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  • Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

    A Novel

    Translated by Helen R. Lane ...
    Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Adventures of Pinocchio

    by Carlo Collodi ...
    The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. The first half was originally a serial in 1881 and 1882, and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of ... Read more

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  • Raised from the Ground

    A Novel

    A family of Portuguese farmers struggle to survive as world events pass them by in "a novel that resounds with relevance for our own time" ( New York Times Book Review).Winner of the City of Lisbon PrizeCelebrated author Jose Saramago has delighted readers around the world with his imaginative tales and evocative depictions of life in his native Portugal. His novel Raised from the Ground follows ... Read more

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  • A Manuscript of Ashes

    A Novel

    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    In this "beautifully wrought" novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery ( New York magazine).It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write ... Read more

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  • The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution

    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Mariano Azuela, the first of the “novelists of the Revolution, ” was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1873. He studied medicine in Guadalajara and returned to Lagos in 1909, where he began the practice of his profession. He began his writing career early; in 1896 he published Impressions of a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Where the Air Is Clear

    My name is Ixca Cienfuegos. I was born and I live in Mexico City. Which is not so grave: in Mexico City there is never tragedy but only outrage.Thus begins Carlos Fuentes's first novel, unfolding a panorama in which many people's lives depend on the fact that they live in today's Mexico City, where the air is clear and yet filled with the old gods and devils still struggling to overcome the new, ... Read more

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  • The Quest

    by Pío Baroja ...
    Translated by Isaac Goldberg ...
    In "The Quest," Pío Baroja weaves a complex narrative that captures the existential dilemmas faced by his characters amid the backdrop of early 20th-century Spain. Drawing on the literary style of modernism, Baroja's prose is imbued with a vivid, introspective quality that allows readers to delve deeply into the psyche of his protagonists. The quest motif serves as both a literal and metaphorical ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Pinocchio

    by Carlo Collodi ...
    Illustrated by Minalima ...
    The classic children's tale about a little wooden boy, now in a full-color deluxe edition, packed with beautiful artwork and interactive features.Originally published in 1883, The Adventures of Pinocchio is one of the best known and beloved children's classics. Written by Italian political satirist Carlo Collodi, it is the story of Geppetto, a poor puppeteer who uses an enchanted piece of wood to ... Read more

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  • The Vortex

    A Novel

    Translated by John Charles Chasteen ...
    Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Woman and the Puppet

    by Pierre Louys ...
    One of the great novels about obsessive love, The Woman and The Puppet was first published in France in 1898 and is considered Louys' masterpiece. It has inspired five film versions, including von Steinberg's in 1935 and Bunuel's in 1977. 'This elegantly simple story has lost none of its charm. It is carnival time in Spain, and a man named Andre falls in love with a woman he glimpses. She seems to ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD