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Categoría: Hispanic fiction 48 resultados

  • THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES -20%
    THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES
    ROBERTO BOLAÑO
    This dazzling novel that established Bolano's international reputation is the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through their darkening world. ...
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    Q. 240Q. 192

  • HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS -20%
    HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes "a smart, witty fairy tale for grown-ups" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR) about the friendships that last a lifetime.Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That's what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they're both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • OF LOVE AND SHADOWS -20%
    OF LOVE AND SHADOWS
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist—and the men and women who dare to challenge it.Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist, an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing, she is constantly challenging the op...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • EVA LUNA (ENGLISH) -20%
    EVA LUNA (ENGLISH)
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener—born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working as a servant. Eva is a naturally gifted and imaginative storyteller who meets people from all s...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • THE AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH -20%
    THE AUTUMN OF THE PATRIARCH
    GARCÍA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL
    One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant andthe corruption of power.From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the renowned mast...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • INFINITE COUNTRY -20%
    INFINITE COUNTRY
    PATRICIA ENGEL
    u003cbu003eA REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK AND INSTANT u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMES u003c/iu003eBESTSELLERu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003eu003cbu003e"A knockout of a novel...we predict [u003ciu003eInfinite Countryu003c/iu003e] will be viewed as one of 2021's best." —u003ciu003eO, The Oprah Magazineu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbu003eNamed a Most Anticipated ...
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    Q. 260Q. 208

  • MARTITA, I REMEMBER YOU/MARTITA, TE RECUERDO : A STORY IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH -20%
    MARTITA, I REMEMBER YOU/MARTITA, TE RECUERDO : A STORY IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH
    SANDRA CISNEROS
    A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously told tale masterfully written by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, in a beautiful dual-language edition.As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Inst...
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    Q. 130Q. 104

  • HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS -20%
    HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS
    JULIA ALVAREZ
    A collectible hardcover thirtieth-anniversary edition of Julia Alvarez's modern Latinx classic that gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures, featuring a new foreword by New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning novelist Elizabeth AcevedoA Penguin Vitae EditionThe García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their ...
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    Q. 260Q. 208

  • VIOLETA [ENGLISH EDITION] -20%
    VIOLETA [ENGLISH EDITION]
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    ABOUT VIOLETA [ENGLISH EDITION]NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Marie Cla...
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    Q. 110Q. 88

  • OUR SHARE OF NIGHT -20%
    OUR SHARE OF NIGHT
    ENRIQUEZ, MARIANA
    "In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazâu Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret soci...
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    Q. 300Q. 240

  • DON QUIXOTE (ENGLISH) -20%
    DON QUIXOTE (ENGLISH)
    DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL / RUTHERFORD, JOHN / GONZÁLEZ ECHEVARRÍA, ROBERTO
    Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadDon Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray--he tilts at windmills, imagining them...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • SEVEN EMPTY HOUSES -20%
    SEVEN EMPTY HOUSES
    SCHWEBLIN, SAMANTA
    Longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award for Translated LiteratureA blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon." -O, the Oprah magazineThe seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A ...
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    Q. 260Q. 208

  • THE WIND KNOWS MY NAME -20%
    THE WIND KNOWS MY NAME
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his fami...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • WHAT HAPPENED TO RUTHY RAMIREZ -20%
    WHAT HAPPENED TO RUTHY RAMIREZ
    CLAIRE JIMENEZ
    A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long-missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen-year-old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred ...
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    Q. 290Q. 232

  • STILL BORN -20%
    STILL BORN
    NETTEL, GUADALUPE
    Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker PrizeA profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive).Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around th...
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    Q. 280Q. 224

  • BEZOAR -20%
    BEZOAR
    NETTEL, GUADALUPE
    One of the most important and watched writers of today.Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human foibles. Following on the critical successes of her previous books, here are six stories that captur...
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    Q. 170Q. 136

  • FAMILY LORE -20%
    FAMILY LORE
    ACEVEDO, ELIZABETH
    A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel PrizeFrom National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its womenFlor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her fami...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • WHERE THERE WAS FIRE -20%
    WHERE THERE WAS FIRE
    JOHN MANUEL ARIAS
    A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias"An exciting new voice with a prowess for lyricism." ?Publishers WeeklyMOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: CrimeReads, Debutiful, Library Journal, Zibby Mag, The Mary Sue, and more!Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Compa...
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    Q. 300Q. 240

  • OLGA DIES DREAMING -20%
    OLGA DIES DREAMING
    XOCHITL GONZALEZ
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - WINNER OF THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE - INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD FINALISTA blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots--all in the wake of Hurricane MariaNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus, Wa...
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    Q. 160Q. 128

  • THE SILENCE IN HER EYES -20%
    THE SILENCE IN HER EYES
    LUCAS CORREA, ARMANDO
    In the vein of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware, a bold and suspenseful psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered.Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Man...
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    Q. 290Q. 232

  • PEDRO PÁRAMO (ENGLISH EDITION) -20%
    PEDRO PÁRAMO (ENGLISH EDITION)
    JUAN RULFO / WEATHERFORD, DOUGLAS J.
    "One of the best novels in Hispanic literature, and in literature as a whole."--Jorge Luis BorgesThe highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, soon to be a Netflix film, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel García MárquezA masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Ped...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE -20%
    DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    "Allende has created a masterpiece of historical fiction that is passionate, adventurous, and brilliantly insightful. . . . suspenseful and surprising."--Denver PostFrom the revered New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover, set against the chaos, greed, and prom...
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    Q. 190Q. 152

  • HOPSCOTCH -20%
    HOPSCOTCH
    CORTÁZAR, JULIO / RABASSA, GREGORY
    Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a ke...
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    Q. 200Q. 160

  • BLOW-UP -20%
    BLOW-UP
    CORTÁZAR, JULIO
    A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's intended victim . . .Originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories, the fifteen stories collected here—including "Blow-Up," which was the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni's film of the same name—shows ...
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    Q. 180Q. 144

  • DISCREET HERO -20%
    DISCREET HERO
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires—which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surrou...
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    Q. 200Q. 160

  • AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER -20%
    AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    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 Pedro Camacho, whose racy, vituperative soap operas are holding the city's listeners in thrall. Pedro chooses young Marito to be his confidant as he slowly goes insane.Interweaving the story of Marito's life with the ever-m...
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    Q. 220Q. 176

  • THE BAD GIRL -20%
    THE BAD GIRL
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese busi...
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    Q. 200Q. 160

  • THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD -20%
    THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with al...
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    Q. 310Q. 248

  • THE DREAM OF THE CELT -20%
    THE DREAM OF THE CELT
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his life to improving the plight of oppressed peoples around the world. But when he dared to draw a parallel between the injustices he witnessed in African and American colonies and those committed by the British in Northern Ireland, he became involved in a cau...
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    Q. 250Q. 200

  • THE SUM OF OUR DAYS -20%
    THE SUM OF OUR DAYS
    ALLENDE, ISABEL
    In this powerful memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her life after the death of her daughter, Paula. But The Sum of Our Days is not a tragedy; narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, it is a remarkable story of life that is as exuberant and passionate as Allende herself. Baring her soul, Allende reflects on love, marriage, motherhood...
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    Q. 190Q. 152