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  • Send Down Einstein

    by Paul Hecht, Anthony Geist ...
    A comic and melancholy novel about translation and living between cultures, set during one historic day in Spain: February 21, 1981, the attempted coup against the newborn Spanish democracy.Early one morning in 1981, Peter Carp, an American poet and translator living in Granada, wakes to the sounds of shouting and the revving of a motorcycle. These interruptions to Peter’s sleep provoke a series ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Modernism and Its Margins

    Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America

    Edited by Anthony Geist, Jose B. Monle-n ...
    Series series Hispanic Issues
    This volume represents a rereading of modernism and the modernist canon from a double distance: geographical and temporal. It is a revision not only from the periphery (Spain and Latin America), but from this new fin de si cle as well, a revisiting of modernity and its cultural artifacts from that same postmodernity. Modernism and Its Margins is an attempt at introducing different perspectives and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Spanish Daughter

    A Gripping Historical Novel Perfect for Book Clubs

    by Lorena Hughes ...
    Series Book 1 - Puri’s Travels
    “An engrossing, suspenseful family saga filled with unpredictable twists and turns.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana“With an equal mix of historical fiction, dramatic family conflict, and mystery, this tale should please fans of Christina Baker Kline, Lisa Wingate, and Kate Quinn.” —BooklistThe Washington Post Books to Read Now | Ms. M... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The House of Broken Angels

    by Luis Alberto Urrea ...
    In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend."All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death."In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Savage Detectives

    A Novel

    by Roberto Bolaño ...
    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
    The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.National BestsellerNew Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture

    Edited by David T. Gies ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected development from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Dialectics of Our America

    Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History

    by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, José David Saldívar ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Joining the current debates in American literary history, José David Saldívar offers a challenging new perspective on what constitutes not only the canon in American literature, but also the notion of America itself. His aim is the articulation of a fresh, transgeographical conception of American culture, one more responsive to the geographical ties and political crosscurrents of the hemisphere ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • It Would Be Night in Caracas

    A Novel

    by Karina Sainz Borgo ...
    As seen in the New York Times Book ReviewTold with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman's desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future." Echoes of Borges in a novel of war-torn Venezuela . . . the writing is tense and complex . . . dynamic." - The New York Times<... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

    Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE“The work contains a wealth of information that must surely provide the basic material for a number of study modules. It should find a place on the library shelves of all institutions where Latin American studies form part of the curriculum.”Reference Review“In short, this is a fascinating panoply that goes from a reevaluation of pre-Columbian ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Woman Hollering Creek

    And Other Stories

    by Sandra Cisneros ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.The lovingly drawn characters of these stories give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border with tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD