Bonita (English)

Halfon, Eduardo / Hahn, Daniel / Lisa Dillman

From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes a new installment in his hero's nomadic odyssey as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather's abductionIn Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather's multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fatefu...

Goldman, Francisco

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER "Painful, refractive, beautiful . . . Goldman is beloved."--New York Review of Books In Monkey Boy, Francisco Goldman's "brilliantly constructed auto-fiction" (NPR), we meet Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer grappling with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and...

Fuentes, Rodrigo

In seven interconnected short stories, the Guatemalan countryside is ever-present: a place of timeless peace, and the site of sudden violence. Don Henrik, a good man struck time and again by misfortune, confronts the crude realities of farming life, family obligation, and the intrusions of merciless entrepreneurs, hitmen, drug dealers, and fallen angels, all wanting their piece...

Brown, Skila

Set in 1981 Guatemala, a lyrical debut novel tells the powerful tale of a boy who must decide what it means to be a man during a time of war. Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama tells him not yet — he's still her quiet moonfaced boy. The soldiers laugh at...

Halfon, Eduardo

Eduardo Halfon's first book, The Polish Boxer, was lauded by both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, featured on NPR, championed by booksellers from coast to coast, and named a finalist for the International Latino Book Award. With this book, Eduardo Halfon--a fluent English speaker--is poised to become an even bigger figure in American and international letters.Mona...

Morales, Mario Roberto

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Native American Studies. FACE OF THE EARTH, HEART OF THE SKY is a testimonial novel of the Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s that movingly relates the victimization of the indigenous peoples by the National Army and the guerrillas. Gerald Martin writes that this book gives shattering insight into a time of horror and injustice. In writing this im...

Sorg, Patricia

Brisa, una arquitecta alcohólica que está a punto de perder su trabajo, es enviada a un remoto y místico pueblo para demoler unas ruinas históricas y construir una urbanización en su lugar.Ese proyecto tiene un giro cuando se encuentra con un esce- nario diferente y se enamora del mayor oponente de la construcción. Unido a ello, se ve acosada por voces del más allá y visiones f...

Sorg, Patricia

El libro Bonita, de Patricia Sorg, es una fascinante novela histórica que nos lleva a la agitada época de la United Fruit Company (UFCO) en Latinoamérica, ambientada en el ficticio país de Utzcatlán, con acontecimientos inspirados en las cruentas guerras y difíciles situaciones que se vivieron en el territorio a lo largo de este periodo. La protagonista, Inés, una mujer latinoa...

Sorg, Patricia

El libro Hunapú (cuando tiemblan las aguas), de Patricia Sorg, es una fascinante novela histórica que nos lleva a la agitada época de la Colonia. La historia, nuestros orígenes y la llegada de los conquistadores han ejercido sobre la autora una fascinación nevitable. Hunapú nace del deseo de narrar ese momento fundacional no desde la distancia académica, sino desde la entraña e...

Sorg, Patricia

Pueblo Nublado, 1931. Sofi, una maestra rural, llega a Casa Montesanto, situada al pie de un volcán en los bellos y misteriosos Bosques Nebulosos, para trabajar como asistente de las hermanas Vega. Muy pronto descubre que se encuentra al servicio de una oscura familia ávida de abolengo y riqueza, que oculta un siniestro pasado. Cecilia, la hija menor, se ha visto obligada a ...