Bonita (English)

Jared Lemus

A vibrant debut story collection--poignant, unflinching, and immersive--masterfully moving between sharp wit and profound tenderness, Guatemalan Rhapsody offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of an ever-changing country, the people who claim it as home, and those who no longer do Ranging from a custodian at an underfunded college to a medicine man living in a temple dedicated to San ...

Miguel Angel Asturias

A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize-winning author of Mr. President's visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its 75th anniversary with a new introduction and with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor TobarA Penguin ClassicDeep in the mountain forests of Guatemala, a community of Indigenous...

Miguel Angel Asturias / Unger, David

Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas LlosaIn an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and mainta...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...